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No new free music from Warner says CEO

Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr recently told analysts the company will not be entering into any new licensing deals for ad-supported music. "Free streaming services are clearly ...

Date: 11 Feb 2010 19:02 | 5 comments

Music disappearing from Zune Pass

According to a pretty long thread over at Zune.net, it appears that Zune Pass subscription holders have seen their music disappear in the last week, for no reason whatsoever. Says the first ...

Date: 5 Feb 2010 22:02 | 21 comments

Spotify is sustainable business model for record labels

Rob Wells, the senior vice-president Digital for Universal Music Group International, talked to the Telegraph this week about his label's relationship with the popular streaming service Spotify, ...

Date: 23 Jan 2010 20:01 | 1 comment

BACH Technology developing new audio file format for online music outlets

BACH Technology, a technology company based in Norway, Germany and China, which also has the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology as a partner, is pushing a new digital music file ...

Date: 22 Jan 2010 23:01 | 8 comments

eMusic and Warner make deal

eMusic has announced that it will be adding artists from Warner Music Group, the third largest record label on the planet. The new deal will make 10,000 catalog albums available for downloading, ...

Date: 18 Jan 2010 03:01 | 1 comment

Zune HD firmware update adds XviD, streaming Smart DJ

Zune HD users should be pretty happy today given the latest firmware update, one that will bring native XviD support to the device as well as streaming Smart DJ. Microsoft says the player ...

Date: 13 Jan 2010 21:01 | 6 comments

First look: Free All Music - ad-supported MP3 downloads

Last October a company called Free All Media announced a service to offer ad-supported, DRM-free music. Earlier this week I got an invitation to the Beta for Free All Music. I decided to give ...

Date: 13 Jan 2010 17:01 | 13 comments

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  • ATRAC
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding. It represents proprietary compression algorithms created by Sony Corp. and used with many of its digital audio electronics including MiniDisc ...
  • ATRAC Advanced Lossless
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding and ATRAC Advanced Lossless is an evolution of the earlier ATRAC1 and ATRAC3 audio systems in use with Sony's SDDS theater audio system, MiniDisc, ...
  • ATRAC1
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding and ATRAC1 was first used in the 1990's with Sony's SDDS theater format system. The ATRAC term represents proprietary compression algorithms ...
  • ATRAC3
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding and ATRAC3 is an evolution of the earlier ATRAC1 system used with Sony's SDDS theater audio system and the MiniDisc format. ATRAC3 offers ...
  • ATRAC3plus
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding and ATRAC3 is an evolution of the earlier ATRAC1 system used with Sony's SDDS theater audio system and the MiniDisc format. ATRAC3plus is ...
  • ID3
    When MP3s became popular in late 1996, group of people started wondering if there would be a solution for the lack of information in audio tracks stored in MP3 format. Basically the problem ...
  • MP3
    MP3 stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer III. It is not a separate format, but a part of MPEG-1 video encoding format, developed by MPEG group in early 1990's. Too often people refer MP3 as MPEG-3, ...
  • MP3+G
    MP3+G is not a real standard, but its become a "de facto" standard for karaoke files when played with computers. Essentially, MP3+G is a combination of two files -- one is a regular MP3 audio ...
  • MP4
    MP4 is the official multimedia container for MPEG-4 video and audio. Although such video can be stored in a number of modern containers, including MPEG-2 PS/TS and Matroska, the development ...
  • MPEG
    MPEG is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group which is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video. The first ...
  • MPEG-1
    Audio and video compression format developed by MPEG group back in 1993. Official description: Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1,5 Mbit/s. ...

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