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MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum

Posted by kdawson on from the thrashing-of-expiring-dinosaurs dept.

PoliTech sends us over to Billboard.com for a detailed article about the coming tipping point in the music business in favor of MP3. The two biggest drivers pushing Warner and Sony BMG toward MP3 are an upcoming massive Amazon-Pepsi download giveaway and a positive move by the usually maligned Wal-Mart (according to sources): "...Wal-Mart [alerted] Warner Music Group and Sony BMG that it will pull their music files in the Windows Media Audio format from walmart.com some time between mid-December and mid-January, if the labels haven't yet provided the music in MP3 format."

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  1. I'm still a little skeptical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am waiting for MP3.1 to come out before I try it.

    1. Re:I'm still a little skeptical by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm just gonna go ahead and wait for MP48's, so I can play them on my HHDDVVDDBVD player.

      --
      There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
    2. Re:I'm still a little skeptical by Winckle · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh man, you mean you still haven't got a HHDDVVDDBVD+ player?!?

      It's got higher definition than outside.

  2. mp3PRO, MP4, MP5 by tepples · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am waiting for MP3.1 to come out before I try it. MP3.1 could be mp3PRO. But a lot of people have moved on to MP4, and the gun nuts are even using MP5.