At 08:03 PM 8/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Ah, but you're missing the point - memory stick doesn't encode with mp3s.
>It will supposedly use some sort of ATRAC compression.
But ATRAC compresses less than MPEG layer 3... it is closer to MPEG layer
1. So the situation, unless ATRAC has a highly compressed variant that
sounds as good as layer 3, is even worse.
This does not herald the dawn of solid state audio. It is merely a very
early step on the path.
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