So, they're basically turning an MP3 into a MIDI by using samples. That will sound rubbish, songs will sound like a broken record jumping to the same section over and over. If you are that precious about storage space, you may as well just download a MIDI... They've already been doing that for the last 5 years.

Personally, I don't get why anyone would pay for a song download to their phone in the first place. A cheap USB IrDA adaptor only costs a couple bucks from the right place (US$4 including postage, https://www.kaidomain.com/WEBUI/ProductDetail.aspx?TranID=648), which works for most phones, and heaps now even have a direct mini USB adaptor.

No, it's much more sophisticated than that. It's really just a more intelligent compressions system (like zip/rar) that is tweaked for digital music and targeted to the limitations of the phone it's used on. For ex., if a phone can't produce anything over 16KHZ, why not keep the audio file under 16K as well? Stuff like that.

Beatnik is the company that Thomas Dolby started, so I'm sure that audio quality is valued highly... and that we'll be blinded by their science. :-)

yes, this is like the zip compression that uses a "dictionary" of repeated patterns... must be something new because zip/rar usually get bad compression rates with mp3 files...

This is cool to have the new compression, but the question is. Is this a new DRM format as well??

More nfo over at:

http://www.beatnik.com/products/technologies.html

But if its essentially is sp midi in their xmf format as the mime type indicates isnt it just another wav2midi convertor.

I agree with OzMick its gota sound pretty pants.

It is getting to the point now that space on the phone really isn't becoming an issue like it once was.

just want to know is there any downloads for the boxsuper starview3 as the went down 18/12/08
any help would be great