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...sampling the 1996 book not on an audiocassette but on something more convenient and ultimately less expensive: a digital, pocket-size device made by Audible, of Wayne, N.J. The company has been quietly cornering the market for audio books and other spoken media delivered online...
Audible has a proprietary formula for compressing sound into a digital form that can move from its website over phone lines into your modem and computer. It takes only eight minutes for a 56K modem to download an hour of audio. To do this, you'll need Audible's software, which comes with a nifty 3.5-oz. rechargeable MobilePlayer ($199) that holds two hours' worth of stuff. A newer model that holds 7 1/2 hrs. and costs $299 is supposed to ship next week...
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When singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke was released from her contract with MCA last year, she didn't fret--she went online. Her engaging new CD, Jonatha Brooke Live, is available for mail-order purchase exclusively at Brooke's website www.jonathabrooke.com) which also features audio clips of her work. On Feb. 5, when the electronica group Underworld offered a free, full-length MP3 file of a track from its forthcoming CD, its Web page received 400,000 hits in one day--an impressive showing for an only modestly famous musical act. And last year the Artist Formerly Known as Prince...
...this massive a caliber, itis expected that all the leads will be powerfulsingers as well as actors, and Ragtime isno exception to this rule. Everyone with a solosings with enough heartfelt emotion to bring theentire audience to tears. The voices ofEichenberger and Cearcy, as Mother and Sarahrespectively, create the audio equivalent ofheartbreak itself--Eichenberger with painfullymeasured dignity, Cearcy with a flood of rawemotion. As Coalhouse Walker Jr., Hamiltondisplays an enormous range of talent both duringand between his solo numbers. He slips into eachmood--from languid happiness to pure joy to miseryto violent anger--with a realistic lucidity thatcements his position...