In case it's interesting to anyone, I pasted an excerpt from a forthcoming release of a book I wrote about using Macromedia Flash. You can see that in the next edition I'll have a minor mention of DRM. Probably not as strong as I'd like it--but this book is not exactly my opportunity to push political opinion. Each edition reaches over 50,000 readers worldwide however.
Thanks, Phillip EXCERPT: For now, it's enough to know that just four sound formats can be imported into Flash. What about songs on audio CDs? CD audio tracks aren't in WAV, AIF, AU, or MP3 format, so you can't use them directly. Luckily, however, most sound-editing software--and Apple's excellent free product iTunes--provides the ability to extract music from a CD and save it in WAV or AIF format. Of course, you should realize that significant copyright concerns arise when you use audio from a published CD. Plus, record labels are adopting DRM (Digital Rights Management) techniques that make CDs difficult or impossible to copy. (Alas, some of these CDs won't even play in your CD player.) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
