The Beatles have announced the December 9th release of “The Beatles Limited Edition USB Stick” which contains The Beatles’ entire digitally remastered catalog.
This unique, apple-shaped USB drive is loaded with the re-mastered audio for The Bealtes’ 14 stereo titles, as well as all of the re-mastered CDs’ visual elements, including 13 mini-documentary films about the studio albums, replicated original UK art, rare photos and expanded liner notes. A specially designed Flash interface has been installed, and the 16GB USB’s audio and visual contents will be provided in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats, fully compatible with PC and Mac.
Albums include:
-Please Please Me
-With The Beatles
-A Hard Day’s Night
-Beatles For Sale
-Help!
-Rubber Soul
-Revolver
-Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
-Magical Mystery Tour
-Yellow Submarine
-The White Album
-Abbey Road
-Let It Be
-Past Masters
The Beatles Limited Edition USB Stick retails for US$279.99. More info here.
MacDailyNews Note: Still no word about The Beatles debut in Apple’s iTunes Store, but at lest it feels like it’s getting closer.
$99 would have been perfect. A great stocking stuffer for baby boomers everywhere at Christmas.
Fool on the Hill.
It comes complete with honourable DRM too!
You just “gots” to bring the political thing in, huh, Raskol. Can’t breathe without slamming those fat cats . . . like George Soros, and John Kerry, and John Corzine, and Al Gore, and John Edwards, and Nancy Pelosi, and Peter Lewis, and Warren Buffett, and any Kennedy, and Neil Hunt, and Larry Ellison, and Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg, and Bill Gates, and Herb and Marian Sandler, and Stewart A. Resnick, and Tim Gill, and Michael Moore, and . . . .
Oh, heck, those seem to be fat feline LIBERALS, don’t they? Dang. I thought it was the other side with all the money. Apparently not anymore, huh?
Predrag:
You forgot reel to reel
@ Predrag
Well said. I knew the Zealot word was gonna’ get me in trouble!
Compared to recent high-end offerings from Apple Corps , this isn’t really that bad. Yes, it’s for collectors only. There are enough of them that things like this make money.
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Yes .. $99 would have been a fair price for all this. But $279 is only
for the fanatical Beatles yahoo. I have most of the songs already.
I don’t own any Beatles’ songs. I’d like to, but I’ve never seen them for sale anywhere. I looked at a Best Buy a few years ago and couldn’t even find a CD. Now I buy on iTunes and they aren’t there so they get dough from me. Three hundred bucks is absurd.
@Pedrag
Over here in Europe we love FLAC. FLAC has become the standard for streaming music to network players and hi-fi systems. The fact that iTunes does not play FLAC makes it easy for competitors.
And then there is DLNA coming that allows people to stream all media content directly from the computer or a NAS to a TV. No hardware like Apple TV needed. Apple is not part of the DLNA community.
* I’m glad they included the above songs on “The Beatles’ entire – catalog”
* I was thinking of buying some of the Beatles albums I didn’t have when they got around to making them available in iTunes, but I found a couple of weeks ago my sister already had them and now . . . too late.
* I wonder how much the Beatles had to pay Apple for the use of the Apple logo?
• Did you know the “Beatles” isn’t in Apple’s dictionary?
I have ‘All’ the Beatles stuff on my iMac – have had for years.
Screw Paul Mc.
279 or 1279 it is irrelevant. Only Beatles collectors will buy this. The FLAC and MP3 is brilliant since both formats are easily transportable and playable. FLAC can be quickly and losslessly converted to Apple Lossless format via Max.app.
IMHO, the beatles will never be out of style, are brilliant artists, brilliant at making money. All the arguments to the contrary are inaccurate.
“What is MDN’s obsession with the beatles and fat hypocritical republicans?”
Most of the people on welfare and food stamps seem to be more obese than the general population. Are they Repubs?
Just in time!
My old 45’s are starting to skip and sound scratchy.
Besides, carrying my record player around on my belt is getting to be a bit difficult.
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, life goes on . . .
Yeah, Predrag, I actually have the original pre-recorded version of the White Album on reel to reel – which actually I remember as a youngster being quite a revelation because the stereo separation was so good on those 4-track tapes. You could really pan out half the tracks on some of those stereo songs. Martha My Dear acapella anyone?
LOL…… Can you say torrent?
@ Predrag,
I actually copied it off of FM radio on to cassette. The local radio station made such a big deal about playing it commercial and DJ free so I was well prepared when they started the first side.
I still have those cassettes somewhere.
Core audio, anyone?
at least it’s an apple!
No Lossless?
They’ve GOT to be kidding!
If you like or dislike the Beatles one thing is clear, those who have control of their music are greedy bastards and they can stick their MP3 where the sun doesn’t shine.
I am not spending $279 for a compressed format. I can spend that amount for the CD/DVD set on Amazon, rip it with Apple Lossless on iTunes for permanent storage. Then to use it elsewhere (like my iPhone or on MP3 disks), I can just convert it with iTunes, still retaining the Lossless files.
Oh, yeah, I did that.
This is really the dumbest idea of a lot of dumb ideas.
BTW, the remastered collection is outstanding. I’m really impressed with what Capitol/EMI/Apple/whoever did with this remastering. It is one of the best ever.
“Most of the people on welfare and food stamps seem to be more obese than the general population. Are they Repubs?”
Please present real evidence of this.