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Microsoft Corp. and RealNetworks Inc.
Microsoft Corp. and RealNetworks Inc. are working to together in order to steer music lovers away from the very popular MP3 format. Instead, the companies are encouraging users to use proprietary software formats. Microsoft and RealNetworks say that the audio sound will be significantly better but will also make it harder to share copyright-protected songs.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft plans to severely limit the quality of music that can be recorded as an MP3 file using software built into the next version of its personal-computer operating system, Windows XP. On the other hand, music recorded with the software company's own format, Windows Media Audio, will sound clearer and require far less storage space on a computer.
Other formats gaining popularity are based on the relatively new Advanced Audio Codec created by AT&T Corp., Dolby Laboratories Inc., Sony Corp., and the Fraunhofer Institute Integrierte Schaltungen in Germany.
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Frawgster
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 8:40 AM
"Microsoft Corp. and RealNetworks Inc. are working to together in order to steer music lovers away from the very popular MP3 format."
Good luck with that...fools...money goes a long way, but it's gonna take more than a few dollars to steer millions of people away from a format they're used to. As for Windows XP limiting MP3 file quality...I guess that means I'll have to postpone buying it till some smart person out there figures a way around this ;-) .wma sucks anyhow ;-)
-Frawg- |
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gregdillon
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 9:52 AM
Who cares. I don't know anyone who encodes MP3s with a microsoft product. And I don't knwo anyone who plays MP3s with a microsoft product. I don't see how they could have much leverage unless they some how cripple winamp/sonique/etc... |
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Anonymous
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 11:33 AM
Where did you get the information that MS and Real are working toguether? I'm sorry but I think you are wrong and MP3 IS a proprietary format. The companies that made MP3 ask royalties for a lot of activities, such as making your own encoder or selling MP3s online. |
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richieZ
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 1:32 PM
im using Windows XP and mp3's sound and record just fine... dont worry about it peeps. it's all good!
-rZ |
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richieZ
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 1:38 PM
windows XP is in beta 2 right now... and this is the last beta before it is released... i'm pretty sure they are not going to do anything major that would limit mp3 in any way.... just wanted to let you guys know...
-rZ |
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doobybrain
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 4:43 PM
they cant do that because people dont use MP3s just for ripping cds or whatever they say we use it for. i know some people record waves and convert to mp3s just to save space and it makes sense. since mp3 format is the most used.
anyway, im sure they wont succeed too long with this idea.
[doobybrain] |
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cype
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 7:56 PM
Here we go again with Microsoft trying to own everything and everyone. |
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Anonymous
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 8:32 PM
One of Bill Gates close friends was once quoted as saying "the only thing stopping Bill from becoming a Bond villan is a big white cat"!
See the evil, hear the evil and know who's evil, else no one can save us! |
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richieZ
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 9:06 PM
is no one bothering to read my posts.... i guess not... |
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Disruptor
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Date: April 12, 2001 @ 11:49 PM
guess not |
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Anonymous
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Date: April 13, 2001 @ 11:52 PM
Stop fanatism. WinXP will record and play MP3 like Windows ever did. The people who limit MP3 encoding is the MPEG group. Most people doesn't know it, but MP3 above 112kbps is considered "professional" and you must pay to use it. The codecs that come with Windows must follow this rule. And I think MS and Real are aways competing each one with their respective audio and video formats. Don't know about they working toguether. |
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Corradoc
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Date: April 15, 2001 @ 6:08 PM
I'm agree with you.
I really don't think anything in Windows XP will stop MP3 use... |
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p0ppe
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Date: April 15, 2001 @ 6:19 PM
argh, conspiracy! |
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Anonymous
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Date: April 17, 2001 @ 12:10 AM
napster might be closed .. but mp3 will never down dude! still many mp3 sources out there .. take an example .. www.multiaudio.net .. who needs napster? |
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JoshvanHulst
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Date: April 17, 2001 @ 10:16 AM
Microsoft is trying to play the nice game to the government and public, basically making themselves look clean from legal problems they are in. Trying to steer people away from something that is so popular is very hard to do, unless you have something that is so much better than what out there. |
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