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From:
Ami Mukerjee
To:
Chris Fahey , IDM
Date:
Thu, 4 Dec 97 18:32:04 -0500
Subject:
Re: (idm) MP3 and the Future of Music
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quoted 17 lines While we're on the topic of MP3...>While we're on the topic of MP3... > >I have a freind with a killer laptop who, when travelling to Germany >recently, was told that he couldn't bring a portable CD player onto the >plane (news to me, but whatever...). > >Anyway, his laptop's hard drive is fat and empty enough to hold about 100 >mp3 tracks, which he put on the machine at home the day before the trip. >No messy CD's to carry around. I caould easily imagine the next step for >him: burn CD's with 200 mp3 tracks on it and bring five or six on a trip >and basically have his whole CD collection in one little package. All you >need is a $5000 notebook computer. > >Ah, such is the life of the digital elite! > >-CF >
THere is already a japanese firm that has a a program and hardware setup to burn audio cds STRAIGHT from .mp3s! No mp3->AIFF conversions, etc. A. Mukerjee Vassar College Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. --Jonathan Swift