Unless the Mu$ic Indu$try(TM) strong-arms the electronics manufacturers, the WMA standard will face a difficult time gaining market share. There is already a large variety of consumer electronics that play the MP3 format. (think portable boom-boxes with CD players...) Yes, many of the portable memory-card based MP3 players support the WMA format, but many of the other consumer devices do not. (please forgive my lack of extensive research... I'm sure some of them support WMA as well...)
I think the Mu$ic Indu$try(TM) is already sunk... MP3 has taken a stong hold on the consumer market. I myself have several gigs of MP3 content (most of it hard to find where I live), and I'm considering purchasing some sort of MP3 compatable CD player... hours and hours of commercial free music that's easily portable and not broadcast dependant... and with more and more MP3 compatable options available to the consumer, the Mu$ic Indu$try(TM) faces a steeper and steeper climb to the top.
Doesn't this all really come down to distribution channels anyway? The Mu$ic Indu$try(TM) has lost grips on it's distribution monopoly, (thanks Internet!!!) and is only now starting to show it's knee-jerk reaction to digital technology.
"a very nice example of something that couldn't be done in the pre-Net era"
The surrealist art movement popularized this method of art creation. They first did it with words, and named the game after the first sentence they created... "the exquisite corpse" was born. they then went on to adapt the same technique to be used with pictures instead of words.
The internet makes the possibilities much greater, and facilitates it's creation.
>I really don't understand why Napster can't simply use a variation of a simple spellchecker
It's simple really... say I start a band, and I name the band "S@ndman" because I think it's cool. I'm an independant band, and I distribute my music via the 'Net. Suddenly the spell checker is blocking a "legitimate" MP3 file due to it's spell checking. There's too many possibilities for spellings... just look at 'leet speak. "It'5 3een a hard daze ni6ht."
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Unless the Mu$ic Indu$try(TM) strong-arms the electronics manufacturers, the WMA standard will face a difficult time gaining market share. There is already a large variety of consumer electronics that play the MP3 format. (think portable boom-boxes with CD players...) Yes, many of the portable memory-card based MP3 players support the WMA format, but many of the other consumer devices do not. (please forgive my lack of extensive research... I'm sure some of them support WMA as well...)
I think the Mu$ic Indu$try(TM) is already sunk... MP3 has taken a stong hold on the consumer market. I myself have several gigs of MP3 content (most of it hard to find where I live), and I'm considering purchasing some sort of MP3 compatable CD player... hours and hours of commercial free music that's easily portable and not broadcast dependant... and with more and more MP3 compatable options available to the consumer, the Mu$ic Indu$try(TM) faces a steeper and steeper climb to the top.
Doesn't this all really come down to distribution channels anyway? The Mu$ic Indu$try(TM) has lost grips on it's distribution monopoly, (thanks Internet!!!) and is only now starting to show it's knee-jerk reaction to digital technology.
"a very nice example of something that couldn't be done in the pre-Net era"
The surrealist art movement popularized this method of art creation. They first did it with words, and named the game after the first sentence they created... "the exquisite corpse" was born. they then went on to adapt the same technique to be used with pictures instead of words.
The internet makes the possibilities much greater, and facilitates it's creation.
>I really don't understand why Napster can't simply use a variation of a simple spellchecker It's simple really... say I start a band, and I name the band "S@ndman" because I think it's cool. I'm an independant band, and I distribute my music via the 'Net. Suddenly the spell checker is blocking a "legitimate" MP3 file due to it's spell checking. There's too many possibilities for spellings... just look at 'leet speak. "It'5 3een a hard daze ni6ht."