Mastered for iTunes & Digital Releases:

Mastered for iTunes is Apple’s new high resolution audio section. Songs labeled in the program have been specially mastered compensating any quality losses during the conversion process to the aac format. With the provided tools our engineer can accurately deliver a hi-quality master of your songs exactly as you intended them to be heard during the session.

Now we can monitor the conversion process using specified plugins and react to quality losses during the process.

For example if some low or high end informations are missing or some frequencies are overemphasized we are going to compensate that. This way we can make sure that your music sounds as you intended it to be.

With Mfit you can ensure your music has the same quality on all iOS devices world wide such as iPods, iPads, mac books etc.

The iTunes droplet requires to submit a hi-resolution master to iTunes. Please send your mixes with a bit & sample rate of 24 bit, 96khz if possible.

All our standard & stem masters are compatible to the normal iTunes and all other digital stores. Simply let us know if you need your final master converted to other formats such as high resolution MP3, AAC and more.

Mastered for Itunes in the store

Why Mastered for iTunes?

Digital releases are becoming more and more important everyday for independent labels and artists. Digital formats need special treatment in order to sound best.

No matter if you are releasing an album as mp3 or aac files! During the the encoding process from a wav or an aiff to a lossy data compressed audio file some frequency informations are getting lost.

Thats why we use Sonnox “Pro Codec” for high quality encoding and monitoring capabilities. We can observe the procedure and compensate lost frequencies and enhance the dynamic range.

With the provided & certified audio unit tools our mastering engineer is processing your songs using special tools developed by Apple. This allows us to create hi-quality masters for the lossless Apple AAC format. We can also improve older releases for iTunes using audio remastering.

Digital release example of conversion

Digital & Mfit File Requirements:

  • 24 Bit and 32 Bit WAV or AIFF Files are accepted.
  • 44,1khz to 96khz files are accepted.
  • Allow a headroom between -3 and -5db.
  • DO NOT compress, limit or maximize the master output/ track.
  • For mastered for iTunes a higher sample & bit rate are preferred.
  • For normal digital releases original 24 bit & 44,1khz files are fine.

Mastered for iTunes vs CD:

An AAC file is a data compressed format like Mp3! However AAC encoding isn’t as lossy as other audio formats. We can achieve a quality similar to a CD Mastering Online.

With the provided codecs and the total integration in our Soundblade digital audio workstation our audio mastering engineers are able to monitor inter sample peaks, the encoding procedure by iTunes using loudness meters.

Using the provided tools we can improve the dynamic range and frequencies which eventually will be lost while converting.