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.)


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Mark Lanctot

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