Steve Jobs Listened to Vinyl, Not MP3s

Musician Neil Young believes the digital era has “degraded our music” from a quality standpoint. He made this remark in an interview with Walt Mossberg and Peter Kafka at the D: Dive into Media conference.

Young believes the music industry needs another revolution, but this time technology should be the focus. And he knows of one man who could have done it. Sadly, that man passed away in October, last year.

“Steve Jobs [was] a pioneer of digital music and his legacy is tremendous. But when he went home, he listened to vinyl. And you’ve got to believe that if he’d lived long enough, he would have done what I’m trying to do,” said Young.

He also added he knew of a project at Apple that involved uncompressed digital music. However, during his discussions with Steve Jobs on this high-fidelity music service, the project got canned.