I can’t quite figure out if I should buy new versions of those albums, re-rip my CDs with different settings, or just give up and live with it. I probably don’t have fancy enough equipment (or good enough ears) to tell the difference, so I probably shouldn’t worry about it.īut I have noticed that I don’t like the sound quality on some of the older CDs that I’ve ripped recently, including U2’s October and War. I’ve wondered if there’s any advantage to buying MFiT albums from iTunes vs buying the CDs from Amazon and ripping them myself, and I guess I’m still not sure. Ars Technica has a couple of good articles on it, from 2012, one on the general concept, and one evaluating the end result. I’d read about it a bit when they first announced it, but haven’t paid much attention to it. I went down a bit of a hole this morning, reading up on the whole Mastered for iTunes thing.
#Using swinsian to burn cds update
So I’m wondering if those versions use the MFiT files for disc 1 and the older files for disc 2, or if they just didn’t update those at all. And all of the deluxe versions are in there too, though those ones don’t have the “Mastered for iTunes” badge on them. I looked into that a bit, and they seem to have been released earlier this year. All (or most) of their studio albums are available in Mastered for iTunes versions. In iTunes, they have a nicely organized U2 page. (The single-disc versions are definitely still available on CD.) The deluxe two-disc versions of their first three albums (Boy, October, and War) are all available to stream, which is cool, but I don’t see them available on CD, though I may not be looking hard enough. They’re clearly pushing the digital side of things. Looking at Amazon’s U2 page is a little frustrating. (So they maybe overdid that one…) For the older reissues, the deluxe versions are sometimes still available on CD and sometimes not. There are four different versions of that: single disc, 2 CD, 4 CD, and 7 LP. The most recent reissue is this year’s Joshua Tree. And they’ve continued to remaster and reissue a handful of other old albums over the years, generally including a “deluxe” format release, usually a 2 CD version with bonus tracks. It looks like they remastered and reissued a few old albums in 2008. Since I got interested in U2 again recently, I’ve started looking into their history of remastering and reissuing their older albums over the last decade.