I wonder how many hacks tehre are for the Open MG Systems to trick it
into thinking that it can take unsecured music?
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 8:19 AM
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Subject: Re: MD: Sony doesn't seem to have a portable MP3 player
> Actually they do make a portable solid-state MP3 player: The Clie!
> (okay, it's a handheld PDA running PalmOS with MP3 playback
> capability, see: http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/clie/index.html). The
> funny thing is this note:
Ok, a bit overkill, but it certainly fits the bill of being portable!
If its anything like my old Palm Professional, it would be about the
size of an MZ-R50. My Palm Professional was, without the case, almost
the exact same size as my R50.
Of course, the R50 sounds a lot better than my Palm Professional ever
did.
;-)
> So, you can't use a bigger, non-MG memory stick to hold your
> non-secure MP3s? Looks like Sony wants to snooker you into having the
> capability to hold secure audio whether you need it or not!
Um? That's whacked.
What is it that makes ATRAC3-encoded music more secure than MP3 anyway?
Or rather, what is it that makes Sony THINK that ATRAC3-encoded music is
more secure than MP3?
The capability to hold "secure audio" is something I don't really care
for. I just want to be able to listen to music I've copied from my CD
collection and do the occasional live recording - I don't want to jump
through hoops unless I get an obvious benefit from it. For my R50, the
benefits are size, the remote control (when biking, I keep the R50 in my
backpack and the remote on my shirt), and recordability - the hoops to
jump through are the slow recording speeds and airport security asking
me to explain the battery pack for it (only happened once though).
What's the benefit of secure audio?
Erm, sorry, that mini-rant wasn't directed at anyone in particular, just
the music industry in general.
-- Dave Kimmel
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