Music Labels Working On Digital Album Format

Nerdfest writes to mention that just weeks after Apple announced their new "Cocktail" digital album project, the four big record companies are moving forward with their own project dubbed "CMX." The new digital album will feature songs, lyrics, videos, liner notes, and artwork. "However, this may be of little interest if CMX isn't compatible with iTunes, the default music software for iPods, iPhones and Apple computers. Whereas labels are eager to resuscitate the album format in an age of singles, Apple is concerned with selling hardware, including a tablet computer rumored to be launching this fall. The major labels plan to launch CMX, which is just a working title for the format, in November. It will reportedly be 'soft-launched' with a few select releases."

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(offtopic rant on Ubuntu) it isn't for joe public

[aepervius]

I have for the 3rd time AGAIN tried Ubuntu. 1) video do not work properly and skip (matroska container , vlc and another media player used). No skip on windows. 2) updating firefox is an hassle 3) alsa or whatever is called was a hassle and skip 4) email client looked nice, until it started eating my email. 5) installing some apps forced me to go through "man" and there is no GUI equivalent that I have found (why can't you the hell change owner from the GUI freaking screen, and force people through a chown ? Why file saved by *MY* user has not the same user as owner ??? torrent file as an example). Installing some stuff made me go through hoop and loop and scripts. The bottom line is whereas I tolerated this, that is NOWHERE near the reliability or easiness of installation of the average windows stuff. As long as linux proponent do not recognize that, linux will stay a fringe stuff used mainly for server, desktop being an afterthought. And my biggest rant : why the FUCK asking the help system on CHOWN give me 10 crap before I am being shown the main topic (see below after the rant). Heck clicking on some topic just make the help "disappear" (crash?)

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Re:I kinda like mods here

[BobMcD]

Please Mr Public, if you can't work linux out without crying, you just shouldnt use it. Go back to Windows and cry there. Leave the big boys alone so they can get the real work done. Thanks have a nice day.

While this is asinine and inflammatory, it is nearly true.

If you're not enjoying it and/or you don't HAVE to use it, don't. That goes for Linux and for everything else.

Open Source is choice, sir. You can choose the alternative...

Re:I kinda like mods here

[geminidomino]

Modding "man man" insightful (parent's full post) whereas modding me offtopic is kinda.... biased. Both are offtopic or both are interresting/troll/whatever other mod there is.

No. You're just full of crap.

Updating Firefox is a hassle? You mean because you have to put in your password when you click on the package manager update? If you're trying to update beyond what the package manager is offering, you're beyond "Joe public" range, so learn to use the OS.

ALSA was replaced in 8.04, so you obviously haven't tried recently.[*]

There IS a gui for man. it's called gman. Install it. As for chown, again, you're moving beyond "Joe Public" but all you have to do is set up a shortcut to run your file manager as the super user (copy your existing one, and prepend a "gksu -s" to it, could have been solved with 45 seconds of googling.) You will probably hose your system with this since you don't know what you're doing enough to be dicking with it, but hey...

why the FUCK asking the help system on CHOWN give me 10 crap before I am being shown the main topic

Err. Because you're asking gnome help for help on a command line command? You have to ask for help in the right place before you can get the right help, or do you go to your doctor's office to ask him for help re-jetting your carburetor?

Which is not to say that Ubuntu doesn't have it's flaws. ALSA(footnoted above) was replaced, as noted, and pulseaudio (the replacement) is a festering pile of shit that needs to crawl back into whatever dark pit it clawed its way out of. But it generally only causes problems for people who AREN'T "Joe Q Public" and who know what they're doing, but PA won't fugging let them...

However That doesn't change the fact that your "rant" is unmitigated bullshit, and you're just a troll.