Steve Jobs 'listened to vinyl rather than iPods', says Neil Young Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music. His legacy is tremendous," Young, who is campaigning for higher fidelity digital, said. But when he went home, he listened to vinyl (albums). Young told the "D: Dive Into Media" conference on Tuesday that he spoke with Jobs about creating a format that has 20 times the fidelity of files in the most current digital formats, including MP3. Such a format, he said, would contain 100 per cent of the data of music as it is created in a studio, as opposed to five per cent in compressed formats including Apple's AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). Each song would be huge, and a new storage and playback device might only hold 30 albums. Each song would take about 30 minutes to download, which is fine if you leave your device on overnight, he said. Although Young did not have a practical plan for developing such a format - saying it's for "rich people" to decide - he said Jobs was on board with the idea before he died from cancer at age 56 in October. I talked to Steve about it. We were working on it," Young said. You've got to believe if he lived long enough he would eventually try to do what I'm trying to do. Young's opinion of Jobs was confirmed by interviewer Walt Mossberg, a journalist with News Corp.'s All Things D website, which hosted Jobs at its conferences. Mossberg said Jobs expressed surprise that "people traded quality, to the extent they had, for convenience or price." An Apple Inc. spokesman declined to comment. Young also said that "piracy is the new radio," suggesting that illegally copying low-quality songs was an acceptable way for fans to sample music before buying higher-quality versions.