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skism
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Fri, 13 Apr 2001 05:43:22 +0200
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RE: [idm] mp3 competition
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http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2707267,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews 01 here's an extract from the article... << The new restrictions in Windows XP won't prevent other vendors' software applications from recording MP3 music at a higher fidelity, but early testers of beta versions of Windows XP already complain that the most popular MP3 recording applications -- which compete with Microsoft's format -- don't seem to function properly, apparently because of changes Microsoft made to how data are written on CD-ROMs under Windows XP. Microsoft says that while other software vendors' products may not be "optimized" to run with Windows XP, those products should run acceptably with the operating system.
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What a load of bollox. how the fuck could the way data is written to CD's affect the reading & encoding of sound data? Unless microsoft has changed both the ASPI and the MSCDEX protocols (which would break tonnes of other software) then there isn't anything they can do to stop encoding. Even if they did, you could just sample the data from the wire connecting the sound card to the CD. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org