Add that to the great Rio portable MPEG player, and upcoming Automobile
versions...then BAM! a new standard for the public. That with MDs, which
use a kind of MPEG encoding, CDRs, etc., will continue the shock of the
whole system of data publishing.
But, a way to make profit will be found, not to worry.
...Olas
-----Original Message-----
From: Lance C McGannon [mailto:mclance@nacs.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 5:15 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: (idm) warp/mp3
At 01:46 PM 4/15/99 -0700, you wrote:
quoted 7 lines Of Course, often in America, the albums that really make the money are>
>Of Course, often in America, the albums that really make the money are
>the ones that pre-teens would buy anyway. In my opinion, MP3 really
>won't catch on in the mainstream until it becomes user freindly.
>People who are around computers realize how to copy/use the encoded
>format, but your average Joe would rather just play a disc.
>
Actually, the mp3 format is about to become
a lot more user friendly. In the next few
months the ability to play mp3s and
streaming mp3s is being incorporated into
the Real Media Player. Currently there is
a 3rd party Real Media plugin that allows
the player to do this but according to a recent
article in Internet World magazine, that feature
will be a standard Real Player feature later this
year. So instead of entering long file locations
and/or finding mp3 files on your machine, you
can just click on a quick link.
-->-Lance---
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