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Musician Neil Young and tech executive Phil Baker have been trying to push the tech industry to make it easier for consumers to listen to high-quality audio for almost a decade now. The duo\u2019s hi-res music player Pono aimed to fix problems they said plagued MP3 players like the iPod and music software like iTunes \u2014 like compressed, lossy, and low-fidelity audio files that were not similar enough to their original recordings.\nBut five years after the Pono was released, Young believes the tech industry has still not advanced enough for consumers to easily listen to high resolution audio. The two men\u2019s new book, To Feel the Music: A Songwriter\u2019s Mission To Save High Quality Audio, details the hurdles they had to overcome to create the Pono, as well as what the tech industry should do in order to get consumers to realize what their missing with streaming and \u201cCD-quality\u201d music.\nIn an interview with The Vergecast, Young tells Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel that even though Grammy-winning artists are able to make music almost anywhere they go on their laptop or mobile devices, they\u2019re still sacrificing on audio fidelity.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices