Don't worry about the codec or MS. This could be done a variety of ways, with a variety of technologies. The real question is the labels and licensing and the central premise of renting.
All the major services today offer burning "permanent downloads" for 1$/ea. The question is, if IN ADDITION to that you could have thousands of songs on your PC and device, for $10/mo would that be of interest. So yes, when you stop paying you stop listening, but in the meantime you have thousands of songs immediately. They could be pushed or pulled, but it's still a lot of music to listen to. Compare it to XM radio.
We've been pitched by the major services and we're seriously looking at implementing this on our device. Look, I personally puked over the idea myself originally, but if the rest of the service is in order (codec quality, complete catalog, etc.) I think this could be pretty interesting. Remember it's not an either or proposition, you can have both.
I'm one of the architects of the Neuros, so I thought I'd throw in my $.02
We don't use either audible magic or Shazaam, but a technology that is very similiar to both of them.
The database is twenty some thousand songs, which sadly, is very comprehensive to pretty much anything you hear on the radio. It's something we'll be adding to quickly over time so that the identifications can expand beyond radio to include much more.
For reference, freedb and CDDB contain millions of songs, but as mentioned previously they use toc information from the whole CD and thus don't work for our application.
Joe Born
CTO Digital Innovations, LLC
jborn@neurosaudio.com
As one of the architects of this product, I feel obliged to clarify the open point.
It is definately the vision for this product to support MODs, and much of that will be available day one. However the XML portion of the database is only supported by the application, which translates it into the database format used by the device.
While we'll be publishing the documentation on the device's database, that database is a semi-proprietary format, simply due to the constraints of the device.
In any case, we'll be working to support easy coding at both levels, but be patient, this is a work in process.
Joe Born
CTO Digital Innovations, LLC
jborn@neurosaudio.com
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Don't worry about the codec or MS. This could be done a variety of ways, with a variety of technologies. The real question is the labels and licensing and the central premise of renting. All the major services today offer burning "permanent downloads" for 1$/ea. The question is, if IN ADDITION to that you could have thousands of songs on your PC and device, for $10/mo would that be of interest. So yes, when you stop paying you stop listening, but in the meantime you have thousands of songs immediately. They could be pushed or pulled, but it's still a lot of music to listen to. Compare it to XM radio. We've been pitched by the major services and we're seriously looking at implementing this on our device. Look, I personally puked over the idea myself originally, but if the rest of the service is in order (codec quality, complete catalog, etc.) I think this could be pretty interesting. Remember it's not an either or proposition, you can have both.
I'm one of the architects of the Neuros, so I thought I'd throw in my $.02 We don't use either audible magic or Shazaam, but a technology that is very similiar to both of them. The database is twenty some thousand songs, which sadly, is very comprehensive to pretty much anything you hear on the radio. It's something we'll be adding to quickly over time so that the identifications can expand beyond radio to include much more. For reference, freedb and CDDB contain millions of songs, but as mentioned previously they use toc information from the whole CD and thus don't work for our application. Joe Born CTO Digital Innovations, LLC jborn@neurosaudio.com
As one of the architects of this product, I feel obliged to clarify the open point. It is definately the vision for this product to support MODs, and much of that will be available day one. However the XML portion of the database is only supported by the application, which translates it into the database format used by the device. While we'll be publishing the documentation on the device's database, that database is a semi-proprietary format, simply due to the constraints of the device. In any case, we'll be working to support easy coding at both levels, but be patient, this is a work in process. Joe Born CTO Digital Innovations, LLC jborn@neurosaudio.com