MP3 Going the Way of the 8-Track?

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MP3 Going the Way of the 8-Track?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:02AM from the its-gotta-happen-someday dept.

joepa writes "According to this MSN/ZDNet story, MP3 is dying. Overall, the data has not shown a clear trend, but at least one recent study reports that people are deleting MP3s faster than they are downloading them. AAC and WMA, meanwhile, are apparently gaining market share. Is this evidence that MP3 is being used largely to sample music rather than for permanent archival and listening purposes? They still don't think so. "

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Re:Other Formats? by Lussarn · 2004-10-21 05:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

There is nothing illegal about Ogg. It's a great format to rip your CDs too.
Re:Uh no by nite_warrior · 2004-10-21 05:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

or DVD-R for larger music collections.
Re:Other Formats? by nite_warrior · 2004-10-21 05:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

you should try iTunes, is great
Re:Who needs MP3s by MvD_Moscow · 2004-10-21 06:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You are a criminal? Why? What did you steal? What did you do?
Re:Other Formats? by kisielk · 2004-10-21 07:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ok, I'm Polish.. I don't get this... explain please :)
Well... by johndeeregator · 2004-10-21 07:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Well, this is certainly guaranteed to increase the number of car crashes.
Re:Uh no by Drakon · 2004-10-21 08:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

or into a multi-terabyte WORM (as in my case)

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Re:Other Formats? by 3terrabyte · 2004-10-21 09:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I think it really depends on what side of the fence you're on to see this one way or the other.
The fact that you mentioned Poland was so helpful in this one useful role, is exactly the point. Why can't we get more help than that? From each country, and more countries total?
To have 10 countries total up to be 9% of the total number there just isn't a huge COALITION to be proud of. And I'm talking about Bush patting himself on the back for doing such a good job. Not pissing on the countries that did help.
Well that's my take on it.
Al Frankton did a slightly funny skit on the 4 Norwegian of the WORLD COALITION that are there helping the US. Turns out they're in Kuwait fixing trucks. Well, anyway.

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