RE: Another Nail in the MP3 coffin?

["Keith Doxey" <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

It depends if you want to move away from MP3.

I remember this discussion when Media Player 7 came out. For the
distributed
multiroom server/client setups that most of us are building, Microsofts WMA
format proved to be useless because of copyright protection which would
only
allow a song to be exported along with a licence meaning the song was then
stored in 2 places defeating the point of having a server.

The other downside was that although the filesize was smaller it required a
higher spec machine to playback. A 486 will easily play a WAV file but
cannot process fast enough to play MP3. A P90 will play MP3 if doing
nothing
else and a P133 or higher will make a great playback machine.

Just read this bit in the article ....
"Consumers can also store more music files encoded in Windows Media 8
technology on their hard drive and portable player devices."
.... I assume it has the similar anti-copy protection to MediaPlayer7 and
will stop all efforts to share files across a network.

I am perfectly happy with the quality and file size of MP3 and the fact
that
any of my machines will happliy play MP3's. With higher compression and
anti-copy, I would need to upgrade all my machines and loose some of the
cool features that I currently have.

I'm staying loyal to MP3  :-)

Keith


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 March 2001 13:30
To: DistributedHomeAudio@xxxxxxx; ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Another Nail in the MP3 coffin?


Snip from CNET:


<SNIP>

Microsoft released Windows Media version 8 Wednesday, a compression
technology that lets companies encode high-quality audio and video into
smaller packages.

<END SNIP>

Full stopy here: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5338600.html

Paul G.

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