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Big Demand for Digital Music Players

Posted by samzenpus on from the music-on-the-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Market research company IDC is predicting a rosy future for MP3 player sales. They predict that by 2008 it will grow into a $58 billion industry - four times bigger than the US record industry. Also in the news, Sony will finally start making a digital music portable that plays MP3s. Their present players only read their proprietary ATRAC3 format, forcing you to transcode any MP3 files you want to play on them."

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  1. Sony MP3 Player!!! by jgerry · · Score: 4, Funny

    About bloody time. Sony's portable music players (even their new hard-drive player) are a joke.

    It takes a special kind of asshat to make a portable music player with no MP3 support.

    Sony, welcome to 1999!!!

  2. Re:I'm glad the title says "Digial Music Player" by tool462 · · Score: 5, Funny

    MP3 is the new "Kleenex".

    "Hey, what MP3 format do you use?"
    "FLAC"
    "Cool. I use WMA."