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...chips and microprocessors that power not only personal computers but also an increasingly broad array of consumer electronic devices, everything from third-generation cellular phones to MP3 music players and personal digital assistants...
...this summer, it's high time RJP set itself up for the deluge. No one else is in such a good position, with millions of users and with MusicNet working just down the corridor. Yet the only update planned to the service is to allow users to burn special MP3 CDs as well as the regular...
...wouldn't matter so much if the whole existence of digital music in the MP3 format weren't at stake. A few months ago MP3 reigned supreme with dozens of MP3 players crowding the market and at least 60 million users downloading from Napster to their heart's content. Now the player market has imploded, Napster is near death's door and (not coincidentally) the music industry is subtly beginning to push a new standard, DVD audio...
...known as Dolby Digital 5.1, the labels think it's about time they started selling us an entirely new format maximized for this new medium. To paraphrase Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black: yes, this means you're going to have to buy the White Album again. "The MP3 revolution diverted us for a while," one record producer told me recently. "But things are back on track now. DVD audio is the future, and you won't find it on Napster...
...MP3 can and should be saved; it is, after all, a tremendously versatile format that puts users in control of exactly how, where, when and in what order they listen to their music. But it requires someone like Real stepping up to the plate and producing a lean, mean piece of software that really can archive millions of tunes without striking...