AndyC_772;239452 Wrote: > I read on The Register the other week about how trials are beginning of > selling music on USB sticks instead of CDs. > > In theory I think this could be great; freed from the constraints of > the CD format we could have higher sample rate and bit depth, and no > need to rip at all - the files, error-free and properly tagged, could > just be dragged & dropped straight onto a hard disc.
Oh then I was going to answer something similar to the following: > Of course, it won't be like that in practise. It'll be compressed music, > in a proprietary format, crippled by DRM, and sold at a higher price > because of the 'convenience'. Yes. "CD quality!" (128 kbps MP3.) Free "player" by "We're not Evil Software Corp"! (Which asks for your name and e-mail address, registering you over the Internet and enabling the files to only be played on 3 devices.) -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39438 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
