JJZolx;312859 Wrote: > We're talking about two different things, then. "Streaming" audio is > internet radio stations, Rhapsody, Pandora, etc. Sorry if I used the wrong terminology. I was trying to refer to home audio reproduction from a hard disk without using a physical medium such as CD.
JJZolx;312859 Wrote: > I don't see an industry standard emerging because there's no need for > one. Interoperability isn't an issue. Interoperability most definitely *is* an issue. At the moment, we already have an industry standard for music distribution: the CD. We get around lack of interoperability among hard disk based playback systems by ripping the CD and populating our hard disks in an appropriate manner. But this is a cumbersome process, and the mainstream music consumer won't be interested - what they want is to be able to buy their music and play it without any kind of messing about. What's needed is a mechanism whereby they go online, buy the music they want, and it appears in their audio playback system ready to go. That will require an industry agreement as to how music will be delivered electronically. If you have multiple incompatible systems for playback, you'll need multiple delivery systems, and due to inevitable licensing complications each artist's material will end up available only on a subset of the various systems. What are you going to do when you discover a new musician you like, but whose albums are not available on the system you've invested in? -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48945 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
