musiclawyer
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Thu May-17-07 04:22 PM
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Amazon will be selling unrestricted MP3s..... |
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under a new program to compete head to head with iTunes, so reports the LA Times today. Ostensibly Amazon was not sold on ramping this up until it reached ageement with EMI---who holds the Beatles songs! And who else? Who else is in EMI's catalogue?
I refused to pull the trigger on an iPod when I saw that iTunes had virtually nothing I wanted from the British Invasion era.
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AllegroRondo
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Thu May-17-07 04:24 PM
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1. Weren't the Sex Pistols on EMI? |
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Thu May-17-07 04:42 PM
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2. What compression factor? Hopefully AT LEAST 192k quality... |
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128k is FM quality sound.
384k is just about identical to CD sound. (I couldn't hear the difference, and barely could at 256k rate...)
(the rates are MP3-specific. iTunes also runs at 128k, but the quality is somewhat higher. Still, I stopped using them because customers would deserve 192k for decent quality music.)
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Thu May-17-07 04:44 PM
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3. Both iTunes and Amazon unprotected are at 256k. |
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iTunes will still be using AAC compression, while the Amazon tracks will be mp3. k for k, you'll generally get better sound out of AAC.
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