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The Future of Digital Audio

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

Andru Edwards writes "It can be said that the current digital music scene can be a bit overwhelming with all the competing technologies and file formats. No matter what format you use, these fairly new compression methods make it easy to carry along your entire music collection with you wherever you go, surpassing anything we could have done a decade ago. So where are we headed? This article examines what the future of digital music will bring, both from the hardware and software perpectives."

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  1. analog digital by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    i mean, it ends up analog in the end anyways, so why bother with a middle format?
    t4c

  2. Slow day I guesss. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    That article was sooo bad.

    Yeah, flash is going out the door. Mmmhmm. Brilliant insight. Apparently these guys are on the inside track.

  3. Re:flac on dvd by manifest37 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I agree that a FLAC dvd player would seriously rock and I would buy one in a heart beat. BUT DVD-audio is soo sweet. If you haven't listen to one, try to you will be heaven.