Sony U-turn over MP3 music files
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Sony says its digital music players will now play MP3 music tracks, and not just its own format.
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TOKYO--Gamers will be able to download and play back MP3 files on the PlayStation Portable, a top Sony executive confirmed Thursday in an interview with Impress AV Watch.
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The tune seems to be changing ever so slowly at some record labels when it comes to DRM. Both out of consumer demand and to some extent necessity, some have begun to offer digital downloads in the unprotected MP3 format.
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Sony&#39;s apparently gotten the message: Some of its new MP3 player models will feature direct support for MP3 in addition to its proprietary ATRAC format.
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After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music labels are beginning to make some songs available in the unrestricted MP3 file format.
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Sony has unveiled its latest attempt to capture a share of the iPod market. The new Network Walkman, snappily titled the NW-HD3, is the company&#39;s first to play MP3 files in addition to those in its own ATRAC format.
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Wav2MP3 Wizard is the lightest, easiest and one of the fastest Audio Converting programs. Select your files, convert them to MP3/OGG and decode them back, using one of the 10 easy pre-setup profiles, or make your own! High quality audio in just seconds! The Wav2MP3 Wizard team after a long period of work is proud to bring you the brand new v3.1, with fully automated batch encoding, proving to be one of the fastest and easiest audio conversion software available!   Take a more detailed look at what changed since version 3.0:  * REMOVAL: Removed the ID3Tag options from the Main dialog as they were pretty useless and confusing; default values for ID3Tags can still be set by the File Dialog (see Help File for more) * IMPROVEMENT: Fully automatic batch (multiple files) encoding, not requiring you to click OK between files * ADDITION: Added the File dialog; by double-clicking on any file on the list you can view all its ID3Tag properties as well as select its destination after encoding * ADDITION: Ability to change all ID3Tag information in all files in the list with a few clicks, or clear them * ADDITION: All ID3Tag information is copied from the Main form to the File form (appears when double-clicking on a file in the list) * IMPROVEMENT: Separated Options dialog in tabs (suggested by Paul Jay Schrenker) * CHANGE: There is no "Enable/Disable Multiple Files", as the list always appears now; the program can detect whether the list contains one or more files but acts the same * CHANGE: There is no "Show Save As... dialog before encoding" option, as the user can select where he wants each file to be saved by double-clicking on it on the list; change made for the capability of automatic batch encoding * REMOVAL: Removed color-fading * OCX COMPONENT CHANGE: Now using msdxm.ocx instead of amovie.ocx, due to limited capabilities and bugs of the latter * CORRECTION: List is not cleared after encoding, but is still cleared if user clicks on Cancel button * BUG CORRECTIONS: Corrected bugs on file selection, Main dialog being disabled to user, ID3Tags being disabled after adding more than one file to list and many other minor bugs * IMPROVEMENT: Cleaned up the code, removed all unused entries for smaller size and faster use * ADDITION: Added German language * OTHER: Some other fixes and additions I can't remember after all this time...   NOTES:  * The released versions do not mention in their helpfile that the German language has been added, although the installer does. This has been considered a minor mistake, and will be fixed in the next release.  * Notice that we will not be releasing the Light Version of the source code anymore. The packages that will be available are: Installer, Zipped and Source.  The latest installer can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=90441&package_id=95185  Enjoy another version of Wav2MP3 Wizard!  *The Leftos Open-Source Development Group*
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Someone at Sony has wisened up and decided to add MP3 support to their new NW-HD3 player slated for release in December. &quot;Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range.
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Sony has announced trials of a service that will offer downloadble music tracks that have no digital locks on them.
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Blog: Sony has taken the wraps off the ICF-C1iP clock radio and ZS-S2iP boombox, both of which feature docks for Apple's iPod music player--rival to Sony's once dominant Walkman brand.
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Compressed audio players - also known as MP3 players â-re available in portable, home and automotive form factors and from major and minor consumer electronics manufacturers and PC vendors.
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A few years ago, when MP3 players were establishing themselves as the hot cool thing, the next step seemed clear: What if you could take along not only music but movies, television programs, home video and still pictures in a high-tech box svelte enough
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Sony has embarked on a potential collision course with music groups, including its own Sony BMG joint venture, over MP3 digital song files.
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aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with audio cd rip frontend. Currently supported formats are mp3, ogg, wav, wma, flac, mp4, and radio streaming.  Changelog:  - Added year and genre fields to CD ripper (Thomas Beckers) - Added saving of currently selected AudioScrobbler panel (Thomas Beckers) - Added brighter tray icons for Windows Vista (Thomas Beckers) - Added icons in About menu (Thomas Beckers) - Added an entry for enabling/disabling Audioscrobbler panel (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Persistent split pane divider location (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Null pointer when deleting a radio station (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Icons doesn't change from "play" to "pause" [Bug 1818060] (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: "Clear Tag" option freezes UI - Updated Substance Look And Feel version to 4.0 - Repository refresh improved: now checks modification date - FIX: duplicate entries on stats - FIX: Null pointer on Amazon album search - FIX: aTunes freezes at startup when no repository found - Added button for search filter in playlist bar and moved playlist bar to the bottom (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added saving of last used settings in CD ripper (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added filename and pathname checking for export tool (Sylain Gaudard) - Added CTRL-F keybinding to search filter in playlist panel and allowed switching it off by pressing a second time the search filter button (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added Terracotta and Sunset themes avaible in Substance 4.0 (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added new icon for search field reset (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added tooltips to playlist search filter (Sylvain Gaudard) - Reduced font size of file properties panel to allow longer filenames (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Adapted preferences dialog for greek translation in order to display the complete text (Sylvain Gaudard, Pavlos Paraskeuopoulos) - FIX: Null pointer when file properties panel gets enabled if no song in playlist [Bug 1810167] (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Race condition in mplayer handler (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: aTunes launches several mplayer instances [Bug 1818064] (Thomas Beckers, Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Updated cdda2wav.exe to version 2.01.01a35 to fix compatibility with Windows Vista (Thomas Beckers, Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Race condition on AudioScrobbler service - Added device features: auto-mount devices, copy from and to repository - FIX: Set default max memory to 128MB (previously was 64MB) - AudioScrobbler Album information visual changes - AudioScrobbler Artist information visual changes - AudioScrobbler Similar artist information visual changes - Added Artist Bio at AudioScrobbler panel - FIX: aTunes would not play the next file with non-english version of mplayer (Bertrand Florat)
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and PC users no longer had to choose between Windows Media Player&#39;s inadequacies or Real or Musicmatch&#39;s annoyances.
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Amazon MP3 is a digital music store in public beta that offers DRM-free music downloads, allowing users to download the music to their audio player of choice or burn songs onto CDs.
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Tacit admission of defeat IFA 07 Sony will next year kill off its Connect digital music download service, Register Hardware has learned. Its Walkman products will instead use Windows Media technology, the consumer electronics giant told its customers today.â¦