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...Granted, the average PC owner probably has significantly less music on his hard drive, for now. But it has become axiomatic that MP3s are the future of music. It's been drilled into us that we're all going to dump our CDs given time, and that constant digital downloads, paid for on a song by song basis, will eventually take the place of trips to Tower Records. Given an easy-to-use system of micropayments, will it really take that long for Joe Consumer to pack his hard drive with the musical equivalent of a small European country...
Still to be solved is the key question: In what format will your music arrive? Can the industry create a standard that will satisfy users who want MP3s they can transfer to portable players and CDs, while protecting copyright owners? "We don't know all the details," admits Richard Wolpert, the Real executive who helped create MusicNet. But "it's fair to say [the files] won't be free-and-clear MP3s as we know them...
...after XP's installation, the tiny piece of software that controls my high-speed Internet connection went on strike. That meant no e-mail, no Web and lots of hyperventilation. I couldn't listen to music, since the PC no longer recognized the external hard drive where all my MP3s were stored. And some of my favorite games went berserk, apparently because my machine had fallen out with its own graphics card...
Users of file-sharing music programs saw the future of online MP3s last week, as companies announced a series of joint ventures between record labels and Internet companies to provide fee-based online music services...
...morning--the first notes of your favorite song jostling you out of sleep. But why leave it to chance? The MP3 O'Clock ($55 at artistdirect.com can play digital music clips (or even your sweetheart's voice) instead of a buzzer or the radio. The website offers free MP3s and wake-up messages from pop stars to go with its colorful plastic alarm clocks, but you can also use your own digital files. Note to oversleepers: the 50-sec. clips don't leave much room for extra winks...