Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GOOD NEWS A group of musicians will record a song to benefit Kosovo refugees...
...NEWS The song was written by DAVID CASSIDY...
...about one-tenth their original size while retaining most of the music's high fidelity. The standard is controversial because it allows people (kids, mostly) to swap music online--piracy, the record companies charge. Yet millions do it, despite the irritating download wait of 10 min. or so per song--an annoyance that will disappear when we all get high-speed Net access. MP3 phobia is so great among record companies that Universal Records, the biggest, bolted from the pack last week and announced that it will be backing a competing standard to protect and sell online music...
...among the takers who grabbed a beta copy from www.real.com Installation on my home PC was effortless. I threw a Meat Puppets CD into my disk drive and started listening to the first cut. In the time it took me to play a third of the 4-min. song, the whole tune (all 2.3 megabytes of it) was already neatly recorded and stored on my hard drive. While the sound quality is billed as "near CD," I couldn't tell the difference. I quickly set to work cherry picking our CD collection for my favorite songs. I can now play...
...Song said he attends a downtown Boston church every Sunday morning, and an afternoon exam might force him to leave church early...