MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain
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A jury's $1.52 billion judgment against Microsoft hangs a sudden, unexpected cloud over MP3. This could be the opening open-source advocates have been waiting for. By Eliot Van Buskirk and Evan Hansen.
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In open-source software and new media, there's big money in unpaid labor
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The latest twist in a landmark file-sharing case could lead to a world where open wireless networks constitute a legal liability. In Listening Post.
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I have a friend who has had nothing but nightmares result from his attempts at setting up the fabled low-latency high-performance Linux audio system. In sympathy with his plight I present here a primer in three parts for troubleshooting common and uncommon problems with the Linux sound system. Parts 1 &amp; 2 will present programs used to analyze and configure your audio setup. Part 3 will list the most frequently encountered problems along with their suggested solutions. This week, Part 1 introduces some useful system analysis tools and utilities with graphic user interfaces.
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News that Microsoft must pay $1.5bn for infringing MP3 patents may have widespread effects, experts say.
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Development of native Linux audio plugins and softsynths may not be so relentlessly rapid as it is in the Windows and Mac sound software worlds, but new things do appear. This week I profile a cool new (well, relatively new) Linux softsynth, William Weston's Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment, also known as Phasex. Introducing Phasex read more
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As more economists study the economics of downloading music freely, the consensus will likely be that it does hurt sales of music, but how much?
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Worldwide market of compressed audio player, also known as MP3 player, is expected to reach nearly 58 billion US dollars in revenues by 2008, according a study released Tuesday by IDC.
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Customers picking up the latest  MP3 players this fall are getting much more than just a device.  Increasingly, they're getting free music as well.
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By Saul Hansell  Microsoft has been ordered by a U.S. jury to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 digital file format, the technology at the heart of the digital music boom.  If upheld on appeal, it would be the largest patent judgment on record.
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Is open source the best bet in a recession?
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By JESSICA MINTZ SEATTLE - A federal jury's ruling that Microsoft infringed on two MP3 patents and must pay $1.52 billion in damages could turn into a major sour note for other technology companies in the digital music business.
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Study comparing iTunes music catalog with Limewire concludes that the free file sharing service isn't such a good deal.
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SoundBridge M2000 eloquently frees your digital tunes from the PC, but it's pricey.
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Hammered by iPod, Sony will retool, adding native MP3 support to some digital music players by next summer. Cnet -- SAN FRANCISCO--Sony Electronics missed an opportunity when it nodded off with the emergence
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An open-source application for Mac OS X encodes music using just about any audio file format imaginable. In Monkey Bites.
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Plus: Adobe earnings, outlook top Street...TiVo swings to a loss...HP profit gains on cost cuts, cheaper components.