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In message <19980601155440.7489.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com>, jif <jiffreyb@yahoo.com> writes

quoted 8 lines his friend Josh

>his friend Josh > Wardell explained how MP3 technology allows near CD-quality sound >files to be > transmitted as a music consumer--he has since downloaded from the >Web, free of > charge, more than 2000songs in MP3 format. He said he rarely >purchases new > music on CD any more.

Wow! I hope he's really fucking happy with himself. Perhaps he'll start making his own music, thus cutting out the need entirely to spend time online actually downloading the stuff, after all, it's only sound. Then he can disappear totally up his own butt, forever hopefully. -- Ben Coffer http://www.hybridgame.demon.co.uk/

On Monday, 01-Jun-98, jif wrote [about (idm) Fwd: mini-spam (urgent)...]:

quoted 5 lines It's called the MPMan, and if you believe its advocates, like the

>It's called the MPMan, and if you believe its advocates, like the >Walkman, which > revolutionized the way music fans heard their favorite tapes on >the run in the late > '70s, it could be the digital equivalent of the new millennium.

what the hell is so great about MP3's? I'm sorry.. but I'd never choose to pay over $400 for something which can only hold so much information.. it's like digital cameras.. overpriced and damn well not worth it.. Pay $800 for a digital camera which mediocre resolution? or buy a scanner for $100 and scan the pictures in outstanding resolution.. wonder what I'll choose.. not to mention that the quality is worse, because the digitizing process always reduces quality, and at a lame resolution well.. there you have it, and there's an extreme limitation on the amount of images it can hold, unless you choose a really shitty resolution. I've heard this MP3 Man or whatever it is can only hold about an album's worth of material.. if that's so then why would anyone buy it? and then I bet there's memory expansion for it that will cost a fortune.. I'd imagine there will be lots of people buying it, but in reality.. even if you listen to mp3's.. why not burn them to cd or tape them.. I mean a CD burner is cheaper than one of these damn things.. you can get one for $300.. maybe it's not the best kind, but u can get one :) __ __\ \ / /_\ \ \_____/ "..in whatever you do, if you can't break new ground, what's the point?" - James Cameron