Solving The Online Music Format Mess... With Another Format?

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New music format from Sony

New music format from Sony 11/13/2003 04:07 PM
In an attempt to challenge Apple's current dominance of the exploding online music market, Sony has announced plans to embed on copy-protected CDs digital music files which can only be played on Sony-approved equipment. The files, which are encoded in a proprietary format, cannot be read by or stored on unapproved devices like Apple's iPod, but can easily be transfered to an approved portable device for portable playback. Critics of the plan point out past failures of copy protection...

Real to launch AAC format music store

Real to launch AAC format music store 01/05/2004 11:33 PM
Real Networks is expected to launch a digital music store later this week based on technology similar to that used in Apple's iTunes Music Store...

qwantz: totally just invented the best
format for music EVER

qwantz: totally just invented the best
format for music EVER 03/28/2005 05:45 AM
qwantz: totally just invented the best format for music EVER .. Pop songs as outliner lists .. Songs in list format .. meme on livejournal

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Major Music Labels Promote New CD Format

Major Music Labels Promote New CD Format 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Consumers will soon see a new digital music format in their local stores. Called DataPlay digital media, these news discs are smaller than CDs and represent the music industry's latest attempt to distribute music in a copy-protected format. Three of the top five record companies -- Universal Music, EMI Group and BMG -- have already signed on.

Forum approves Apple music format for
DVD Audio

Forum approves Apple music format for
DVD Audio 06/14/2004 08:10 AM
The Register Jun 14 2004 12:31PM GMT

Politicians Consider Mandating Single
Music Format Standard

Politicians Consider Mandating Single
Music Format Standard 04/06/2005 06:28 PM
Politicians really like to meddle where no meddling is needed, don't they? The latest, is that some politicians are responding to complaints by users concerning all the different digital music file formats by thinking about lega lly mandating music file compatibility. While the industry has been particularly shortsighted in not setting up compatibility on their own (the more compatible, the more people can use your system, the more value the songs have, the more value your system has -- seems easy enough), the idea that the government should step in and force compatibility seems like a dreadful idea that would simply stop all innovation when it came to music file formats. Forcing every music file format to meet some politically motivated standard will make it difficult for newer or better file formats to be created. There's simply no reason the government needs to be involved here.

book online in a bl0g format

book online in a bl0g format 08/11/2004 03:24 AM
Extreme Democracy

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Solving the gay marriage mess

Solving the gay marriage mess 03/06/2004 01:59 AM
Massachusetts' old-style (= corrupt) House Speaker, Thomas Finneran, no longer backs a compromise amendment to the state constitution that would permit civil unions but ban same-sex marriages. Instead, he wants two amendments. The first would say: "It being the public policy of this Commonwealth to protect the unique relationship of marriage, only the union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Massachusetts." According to the report in the Boston Globe, the second amendment "would include language saying that the Legislature 'shall establish civil unions,' but would call for the Legislature to define...

Online Newsletters Grow, Fitting
Internet Format

Online Newsletters Grow, Fitting
Internet Format 06/17/2004 03:19 AM
dmnews.com Jun 17 2004 7:17AM GMT

HD DVD Format To Be Introduced In Early
2005; BD Backers Also Mark Progress
(Video Business Online-S

HD DVD Format To Be Introduced In Early
2005; BD Backers Also Mark Progress
(Video Business Online-S 07/31/2004 05:31 AM
Videobusiness.com - Sat Jul 31, 04:34 am GMT

available in PDF format

available in PDF format 01/05/2005 06:43 PM
PDF

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Which Format Will Win?

Which Format Will Win? 01/27/2004 06:26 PM
Apple will have to be innovative if it doesn't want to be marginalized once again. By Heather Green (BusinessWeek via MyAppleMenu)

Format 1.1

Format 1.1 12/29/2003 09:49 AM
A C++ format string library with printf-style format strings.

Syndication Format

Syndication Format 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
I realize I'm opening up a can of worms here, but I honestly want a solid answer. I'm hoping everyone can put aside their differences and help constructively. Flames and off-topic comments will be deleted liberally. Consider this a...

Fortran-Format-0.50

Fortran-Format-0.50 04/22/2004 05:37 PM

HTML-Format-2.04

HTML-Format-2.04 06/02/2004 05:31 AM

Change of format

Change of format 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
PHP Traveller is changing the format, moving from a regular weblog into a plain old web site. I am certainly not giving up on PHP, I am merely changing my strategy.

Games win for Blu-ray DVD format

Games win for Blu-ray DVD format 01/07/2005 04:25 AM
BBC Jan 7 2005 8:17AM GMT

DateTime-Format-Pg-0.060

DateTime-Format-Pg-0.060 06/20/2004 06:57 AM

Fortran-Format-0.51

Fortran-Format-0.51 04/23/2004 05:53 PM

RFP: XML format for timelines

RFP: XML format for timelines 12/02/2003 01:28 AM

I'd like to see a simple XML format to express timelines with events on them, and a few tools to create this XML, turn them into Flash, HTML and such. The format should allow for merging timelines.

(Just some ideas:) A timeline exists of a StartingPoint, an EndPoint, and Events in between. Each Event is optionally identified by one or more URI's (for merging), has a required StartingPoint (datetime) and an optional EndPoint (datetime, for events that happen over time). Events can be nested within events. Each event can have a URL (semantics: where to go when user clicks on event), a title, a description and an image.

We should be able to express things like conferences, or a personal timeline in this format.

The format should allow merging: time is universal. The events can be merged based on having at least one URL that's the same. We should be able to merge your description of a conference (with your blog entries as events for example) with my description of the same conference.

Anyone interested in working out such a format?

DVD format war looms

DVD format war looms 04/19/2004 07:04 PM

DateTime-Format-DBI-0.031

DateTime-Format-DBI-0.031 11/02/2003 10:51 PM

Forward with the format

Forward with the format 04/19/2004 09:47 PM
USA Today Apr 20 2004 1:51AM GMT

Is this camcorder in PAL format
available?

Is this camcorder in PAL format
available? 09/21/2004 10:11 PM
TechTree Sep 22 2004 2:37AM GMT

Q: Markup format?

Q: Markup format? 03/14/2005 05:10 PM

Q: Which markup format do you use when posting?

Both Textile and Markdown are installed and I flip between them. When I want to post a lot of code without hassle I'll use Markdown because it seems smarter about that kind of thing. Most of the time, however, I want to just write so I'll use Textile; I find that it's a quick and mildly-intuitive way to access the various classes in my stylesheet for the myriad of things I do within this little block of space. Each has a purpose, so each gets used. I rarely enter raw HTML, and when I do it's typically to get around something broken in either markup format.

Et toi?

This entry was in Textile, for those keeping score. It is much easier to enter p(ps). or p(note). rather than <p class="ps"> or <p class="note">.

DateTime-Format-Pg-0.07

DateTime-Format-Pg-0.07 08/08/2004 05:29 PM

DateTime-Format-Pg-0.06

DateTime-Format-Pg-0.06 06/20/2004 06:57 AM

PHP Magazine in PDF Format

PHP Magazine in PDF Format 12/15/2003 12:55 PM
Software & Support Media, producers of the International PHP Conference, are pleased to announce a new monthly version of their print publication, the "International PHP Magazine", published in PDF format and distributed electronically. The first issue is available for free on the magazine's website.

Fortran-Format-0.52

Fortran-Format-0.52 05/25/2004 12:39 AM

Battle Over Next DVD Format

Battle Over Next DVD Format 12/31/2003 12:27 AM
New York Times Dec 31 2003 0:15AM ET

Sony says it does not want a format war

Sony says it does not want a format war 04/14/2005 10:05 AM
TechSpot Apr 14 2005 1:56PM GMT

Format Woes

Format Woes 04/16/2004 11:38 AM
Opinion: Universal DVD recorders are great in concept. You no longer have to worry about whether you use DVD-R/-RW or DVD+R/+RW. But you do have to worry about which brand and where it's made. What's worse is that some are finicky about CD-RW media. This is supposed to be easier?

Fortran-Format-0.53

Fortran-Format-0.53 05/25/2004 10:27 AM

File-Format-RIFF-0.04

File-Format-RIFF-0.04 03/30/2005 02:01 AM

Decode or Decompress Almost any Format

Decode or Decompress Almost any Format 01/03/2005 01:39 AM
While stumbling through the internet, as I usually do, I found myself looking through what may be the largest archive of decoding and decompression solutions for all Mac systems. This list needs no introduction, nor does it need a description of any kind. It simple is the largest archive of decoding and decompression solutions for all Mac systems. This just goes to show what you can find by clicking through Google Adsense ads.

[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to delve deeper.]

DateTime-Format-Epoch-0.07

DateTime-Format-Epoch-0.07 07/28/2004 06:09 PM

New DVD/CD format just in time for
summer

New DVD/CD format just in time for
summer 06/29/2004 08:29 PM
Big name music labels are all set to release a new media format this summer. It is a combination of a DVD and a CD. One side will have the great CD sound that we have all come to know and love while the reverse side will contain video or other types of content needing the large storage capacity of a DVD.

File-Format-RIFF-0.02

File-Format-RIFF-0.02 03/19/2005 02:50 AM

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History repeats itself: Movie
downloading mirrors early music
downloading

History repeats itself: Movie
downloading mirrors early music
downloading 09/24/2004 03:39 PM
InternetRetailer.com Sep 24 2004 7:45PM GMT

Music Downloading Down

Music Downloading Down 01/05/2004 05:39 PM
CBS News Jan 5 2004 3:44PM ET

Downloading music gets more expensive

Downloading music gets more expensive 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
Downloading music gets more expensive .. price inflation .. Raise prices .. AZCentral

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Downloading digital music

Downloading digital music 12/24/2004 01:12 PM
2004 in review Majors and minors, players and platforms, lawsuits and licences

Downloading isn't killing music

Downloading isn't killing music 07/22/2004 11:43 AM
Suw Charman has written an excellent article for the Guardian on my pal Koleman Strumpf's empirical, quantitative research on the effect of downloading on record sales (he concluded that it doesn't really have one), and the music industry's content-free bluster in reply.

"We consider it a very flawed study," says Matt Phillips, a BPI spokesperson. Both the BPI and the International Federation for the Phonographic Industries (IFPI) have criticised the study for including the Christmas period when people are buying CDs as gifts.

"It's very straightforward to address these kinds of criticisms," says Strumpf. "We got rid of the Christmas season and just looked at the first half of our data. We still find the same effect."...

"Over the period 1999 to 2003, DVD prices fell by 25% and the price of players fell in the US from over $1,000 to almost nothing," says Strumpf. "At the same time, CD prices went up by 10%. Combined DVD and VHS tape sales went up by 500m, while CD sales fell by 200m, so a possible explanation is that people were spending on DVDs instead of CDs."

L ink (Thanks, Suw!)

Music Labels Tap Downloading Networks

Music Labels Tap Downloading Networks 11/14/2003 07:32 PM
AP via Newsday Nov 14 2003 6:28PM ET

Conn. man fined for downloading music

Conn. man fined for downloading music 05/13/2004 06:30 PM
Boston Globe May 13 2004 10:12PM GMT

Pepsi Ads Wink At Music Downloading

Pepsi Ads Wink At Music Downloading 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
A new sort of Pepsi Generation will get air time on the Super Bowl: music downloaders. By Theresa Howard (USA Today via MyAppleMenu)

Crackdown May Be Slowing Music
Downloading

Crackdown May Be Slowing Music
Downloading 01/04/2004 09:33 PM
AP via Daily Press Jan 4 2004 8:50PM ET

Conn. Man Fined for Downloading Music
(AP)

Conn. Man Fined for Downloading Music
(AP) 05/13/2004 09:27 AM
AP - A federal judge has ordered a Bristol man to pay more than $4,000 for downloading five songs from the Internet.

Downloading Music Files Has Become Quite
Simple

Downloading Music Files Has Become Quite
Simple 01/18/2004 01:31 AM
By Linda Knapp (Seattle Times via MyAppleMenu)

Music labels tap downloading networks

Music labels tap downloading networks 11/15/2003 03:16 AM
globetechnology.com Nov 15 2003 2:43AM ET

Pepsi ads wink at music downloading

Pepsi ads wink at music downloading 01/24/2004 02:24 AM

CDs Dying Out, But So Are Many Music
Downloading Stores

CDs Dying Out, But So Are Many Music
Downloading Stores 01/26/2004 03:29 AM
I doubt this is all that surprising to most people, but Forrester is predicting a shift from the CD to buying downloadable music, while at the same time predicting that about half of the current music download stores will go out of business by the end of the year. I think they're being a bit optimistic on both predictions. I'm still not convinced the CD is going to go away that quickly. While I also agree that many of the music download stores aren't long for this world, I'd be surprised if most of the current ones didn't at least make it through a year - but perhaps not much longer than that.

Illegal Music Downloading Climbs

Illegal Music Downloading Climbs 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
The number of people downloading music illegally surged a month after recording companies began suing hundreds of music fans, a marketing research firm said Thursday.

Downloading Music Encouraging CD
Purchasing

Downloading Music Encouraging CD
Purchasing 01/02/2004 03:42 PM
A NY Times reporter has written up his experience in trying to get one of his sons to stop using Kazaa and start using iTunes or Rhapsody. He admits that it's really pricey for limited selections, but feels more comfortable about it. He's also surprised that in letting his son download music, he now wants to buy more CDs. Despite the music industry claiming that no one would ever want to buy CDs if they could download music (especially teenagers!), the reporter's son wants the CDs because they come with liner notes and lyrics that make it worthwhile. Again, this is an example of the industry missing an opportunity. People (including myself) like to own the actual CDs if it provides us with additional value. At the same time, downloading music can help people figure out what CDs they want to buy.

Music and Video Downloading Moves Beyond
P2P

Music and Video Downloading Moves Beyond
P2P 04/01/2005 06:59 AM
Music and Video Downloading Moves Beyond P2P
http:// www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/153/report_display.asp

About 36 million Americans—or 27% of internet users—say they download either music or video files and about half of them have found ways outside of traditional peer-to-peer networks or paid online services to swap their files, according to the most recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Project’s national survey of 1,421 adult Internet users conducted between January 13 and February 9, 2005 shows that 19% of current music and video downloaders, or about 7 million adults, say they have downloaded files from someone else’s iPod or MP3 player. About 28%, or 10 million people, say they get music and video files via email and instant messages. However, there is some overlap between these two groups; 9% of downloaders say they have used both of these sources. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent for results based on internet users. In all, 48% of current downloaders have used sources other than peer-to-peer networks or paid music and movie services to get music or video files. Beyond MP3 players, email and instant messaging, these alternative sources include music and movie websites, blogs and online review sites.

Canada: Downloading music is legal

Canada: Downloading music is legal 12/15/2003 05:59 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 15 2003 4:52AM ET

Newspapers Getting Into The Music
Downloading Business

Newspapers Getting Into The Music
Downloading Business 06/16/2004 01:21 PM
Because there aren't already enough different (and often incompatible) music download stores online, various British newspapers are now looking to get into the game. It seems odd that so many brands that have absolutely nothing to do with music retailing somehow think they can now make selling downloadable music a worthwhile business, especially when there's so much competition and so few ways to differentiate.

The Money In Music Downloading Is Still
In Hardware

The Money In Music Downloading Is Still
In Hardware 12/09/2003 01:19 PM
As just about every company finalizes their plans to set up their own imitation music download store, a new study is suggesting (as has been said before), that the real money in downloadable music is for consumer electronics firms selling more hardware to play back the music. The study also found that an awful lot of people really aren't interested in paying for downloadable music. Of course, I'm still waiting for someone to go ahead and offer a complete musical package. That would be a music player that comes complete with a ton of music already installed - perhaps covering a certain (prolific) artist, or an entire genre. It could also come with some sort of service that would let users download new songs in that category as they come out. Of course, as it stands right now, the recording industry would force the price to be so high on any such offering that it could never be done.

ISPs Win Canadian Music Downloading Case

ISPs Win Canadian Music Downloading Case 06/30/2004 02:25 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 30 2004 6:36PM GMT

Survey: Fewer Adults Downloading Music
(AP)

Survey: Fewer Adults Downloading Music
(AP) 04/25/2004 04:36 PM
AP - Driven largely by fears of copyright lawsuits, more than 17 million Americans, or 14 percent of adult Internet users, have stopped downloading music over the Internet, a survey finds.

Survey: Fewer Adults Downloading Music

Survey: Fewer Adults Downloading Music 04/25/2004 06:05 PM
AP via Daily Press Apr 25 2004 9:33PM GMT

ISPs Win Canadian Music Downloading Case
(AP)

ISPs Win Canadian Music Downloading Case
(AP) 06/30/2004 11:01 AM
AP - Canada's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Internet service providers do not have to pay royalties to composers and artists for music downloaded by Web customers.

Yahoo! to acquire music downloading
operation

Yahoo! to acquire music downloading
operation 09/15/2004 03:51 AM
Financial Post Sep 15 2004 7:57AM GMT

Pepsi ads wink at music downloading
(USATODAY.com)

Pepsi ads wink at music downloading
(USATODAY.com) 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
USATODAY.com - A new sort of Pepsi Generation will get air time on the Super Bowl: music downloaders.

Music Group Files 80 Downloading
Lawsuits

Music Group Files 80 Downloading
Lawsuits 10/30/2003 11:46 PM
San Jose Mercury News Oct 30 2003 10:30PM ET

Sister Machinegun's singer on
downloading music

Sister Machinegun's singer on
downloading music 06/19/2004 06:28 PM
Here's an excerpt of a speech given by the singer from Sister Machinegun at a recent gig at Jamie Zawinski's DNA Lounge. It speaks for itself:

Anyways, everything we've played in this set up to this juncture, this crossroads, this... interlude... is released on Positron Records, which we own and operate, the representative of which [at the merch booth] will be happy to supply you with a fix in that regard, for a modest fee which will go toward letting us sleep in a hotel room instead of the van...

Everything after that juncture (that interlude) is released on Wax Trax Records. which means it's owned by -- actually it's not owned by TVT Records, it's owned by Credit Suisse. so technically speaking, the first four Sister Machine Gun albums are released on Credit Suisse, a Swiss bank, which is kind of cool when you think about it.

The point being, I don't get fuckin' paid for that shit, not a dime, not a single red cent. So you can go ahead and go home, and -- hey, you can download it right the fuck here, they got WiFi. Just get up on Morpheus or some fuckin' thing and get that shit for free.

Link (via Oblomovka)

Industry crackdown appears to be slowing
music downloading

Industry crackdown appears to be slowing
music downloading 01/05/2004 09:53 AM
SiliconValley.com Jan 5 2004 9:24AM ET

Solving The Online Music Format Mess... With Another Format?

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