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Majority of students prefer downloading music over streaming

According to a new survey of university students conducted by the University of Reading, the overwhelming majority would prefer to download music than stream it or buy it in-store. The survey ...

Date: 11 Nov 2009 21:11 | 11 comments

Zune HD marketplace adds 3D games, all free

Last week Microsoft updated the Zune HD firmware to version 4.3 bringing along with it the ability to play 3D games. Six games are now available for download in the Zune Marketplace, all ...

Date: 11 Nov 2009 20:11 | 4 comments

Secret ACTA Internet chapter leaked: Global DMCA and 'three strikes'

The highly secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has been drafted under non-disclosure agreements and given to different nations with watermarks in case they choose to "leak" ...

Date: 5 Nov 2009 03:11 | 149 comments

Digital Beatles tracks coming from EMI and Apple Corp.

EMI and Apple Corp. (not to be confused with Steve Jobs' Apple) have jointly the announced the release of a limited edition Beatles Stereo USB Apple which will be available worldwide. The ...

Date: 4 Nov 2009 22:11 | 14 comments

Illegal downloaders stlil buying more music than most

The results of a new study conducted by Demos, a London-based public policy think tank, once again affirm that the people who download the most music spend more than average buying music legally. ...

Date: 3 Nov 2009 10:11 | 22 comments

Qtrax brings free music to Australia, New Zealand and beyond

Last Qtrax announced a schedule for rolling out their ad-supported music download service in the Asia Pacific Region. Qtrax is probably most famous for a PR stunt in which the service was ...

Date: 2 Nov 2009 09:11

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  • ATRAC
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding. It represents proprietary compression algorithms created by Sony Corp. and used with many of its digital audio electronics including MiniDisc ...
  • ATRAC Advanced Lossless
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding and ATRAC Advanced Lossless is an evolution of the earlier ATRAC1 and ATRAC3 audio systems in use with Sony's SDDS theater audio system, MiniDisc, ...
  • ATRAC1
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding and ATRAC1 was first used in the 1990's with Sony's SDDS theater format system. The ATRAC term represents proprietary compression algorithms ...
  • ATRAC3
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding and ATRAC3 is an evolution of the earlier ATRAC1 system used with Sony's SDDS theater audio system and the MiniDisc format. ATRAC3 offers ...
  • ATRAC3plus
    ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding and ATRAC3 is an evolution of the earlier ATRAC1 system used with Sony's SDDS theater audio system and the MiniDisc format. ATRAC3plus is ...
  • ID3
    When MP3s became popular in late 1996, group of people started wondering if there would be a solution for the lack of information in audio tracks stored in MP3 format. Basically the problem ...
  • MP3
    MP3 stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer III. It is not a separate format, but a part of MPEG-1 video encoding format, developed by MPEG group in early 1990's. Too often people refer MP3 as MPEG-3, ...
  • MP3+G
    MP3+G is not a real standard, but its become a "de facto" standard for karaoke files when played with computers. Essentially, MP3+G is a combination of two files -- one is a regular MP3 audio ...
  • MP4
    MP4 is the official multimedia container for MPEG-4 video and audio. Although such video can be stored in a number of modern containers, including MPEG-2 PS/TS and Matroska, the development ...
  • MPEG
    MPEG is short for Moving Pictures Expert Group which is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video. The first ...
  • MPEG-1
    Audio and video compression format developed by MPEG group back in 1993. Official description: Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1,5 Mbit/s. ...

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