It seemed like one of those "next generation internet" stories that appear from time to time, viz http://ow.ly/10zCj
User benefits = zero, adoption likelihood = zero 2010/1/26 Mo McRoberts <m...@nevali.net> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 13:01, Ian Forrester <ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk> > wrote: > > > http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/is-the-world-ready-for-the-successor-of-the-mp3/ > > > > This is meant to make music piricay less tempting, so they say. > > Yes, cut off your remaining source of revenue for people who don't buy > the stuff by making it harder for them to get up-to-date gig listings > and such. > > > I just can't understand why someone hasn't made a decent XML format to > describe related items to a local or even remote tune/media. Yes I've looked > at itunesLP and came away feeling a bit dirty ( > http://ituneslp.net/tutorials/). > > iTunes LP is really just a variant of iTunes Extras, whose aim was to > bring DVD-like content to iTunes movies - LP was a convenient > re-purposing of it... > > The answer is probably 'what's the point?' -- the number of people who > need to support it in order for it to be in any way successful is > staggering, which is what's likely to kill MusicDNA. > > I'm not really sure why they're calling it "the successor the MP3". > AFAICT, it's a bit of metadata tacked onto an otherwise normal MP3, > not dissimilar to an ID3 tag. > > Last I looked, AAC was the successor to MP3 :) > > M. > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
