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Microsoft's 'MSN Music Service' due this fall will be incompatible with Apple iPod | |
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| Time: 06:05 EST/11:05 GMT | News Source: Mac Daily News | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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"Indie-label executives who caught a sneak peek of Microsoft's music download service here March 18 at the South by Southwest Music Conference give it high marks," Reuters reports. "The software giant's offering, the MSN Music Service, is not slated to launch until the fall, at the earliest. It will compete with already up-and-running services including Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store and Roxio's Napster." | ||
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| #1 By 61 (24.92.223.138) at 3/27/2004 10:42:30 PM |
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JWM: MP3 is proprietary, AAC is proprietary, etc....
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| #2 By 2459 (24.175.141.98) at 3/27/2004 10:57:18 PM |
| #4 MS places less restrictions on WMA/V than MPEG does on MPEG-4. The licensing for WMA/V is also more straightforward and cheaper. |
| #3 By 11888 (64.230.74.127) at 3/28/2004 12:22:46 AM |
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#9, see http://www.mp3licensing.com
Q. I want to support mp3/mp3PRO in my products. Do I need a license? A. Yes. As for practically any important technology (and particularly for publicly established standards), you should know that patent rights for mp3 exist. Both Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson have done important work to develop mp3 audio compression (before and after it became part of the ISO/IEC MPEG standards). This work has resulted in many inventions and several patents, covering the mp3 standard. Although others may also hold patents, Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson have an important portfolio of patents related to mp3. |
| #4 By 2459 (24.175.141.98) at 3/28/2004 7:29:22 AM |
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#12 Codec support isn't like consoles. It doesn't have to be a one or the other choice for the majority of consumers.
Apple is at a disadvantage currently because if you want to buy from iTunes and maintain the full quality of the audio and compression benefits for portable use, you need an iPod (no other portable device supports their DRM, and transcoding from AAC to wav to another lossy format can produce further degradation over the original AAC). In addition to this, if you own an iPod, you are restricted from using it to playback WMA files, thus you cannot buy music from the majority of the other vendors for playback on your iPod without a possible quality loss via transcoding. On the other hand, the majority of portable devices currently support some combination of WMA/V, MP3, MPEG 4, and possibly others. Even the iPod is said to support WMA in hardware, but it's not exposed in software. The fact that WMA/V is not only cheaper and less restrictive to license, offers better quality over MPEG, and has a standard DRM implementation has definitely contributed to the format's adoption thus far (especially among device manufacturers and content providers). WMA/V's current and increasing availability on consumer electronics devices places it in an even better position for further adoption because consumers can playback and/or record their WMA/V media on more than just a computer and one brand of portable audio player. |
| #5 By 11888 (64.230.49.107) at 3/28/2004 8:01:22 PM |
| How come if you're banned from here you can come back if you register again? |
| #6 By 9589 (66.57.155.245) at 3/28/2004 11:52:59 PM |
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Who cares? I am just not interested in paying for a download. The rights accorded these download services are just too restrictive.
Music in the CD-ROM format is just not that expensive. The quality is better than anything that you can download. And, I can do whatever I want with the CD-ROM. Generally, I put the original away for safe keeping after burning a copy and then put those files on one of my computer's hard drives for listening. Like I am doing right now while I typing this note. Moreover, the download services just don't carry the music that I like - mostly classical and jazz. Also, the recordings that they do have aren't always the "best" available. When I want to hear Sibelius' Romance, I want to hear Itzhak Perlman play it. |
| #7 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 3/29/2004 5:07:20 PM |
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Funny... Microsoft can't win--if they *did* support the iPod, people would criticize them for going after the iTunes Music Store....
I agree, jdhawk... if you're into classical recordings, these services so far are like what has become of most of the traditional music stores... about 400 copies of Vivaldi's Four Seasons and a boatload of samplers usually of the "Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music" variety (not that there's anything wrong with those, but c'mon... how many CDs must be doomed to contain the obligatory Pachelbel's "celebrated" (my sympathies to cellists everywhere) Canon in D?). Granted, I doubt most classical listeners are interested in compressed-format recordings, anyhow. |
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