Re: music (WMF or WFM or...anything but?)

[Cummings <r_t_cummings@compuserve.com>]

hey james, you've got to stop picking on larry.

after all he's only posted 80 messages since oct. 14! ... now that must be 
worth some sort of looper's delight participation award, no? :-)

more to the point,
how do you compress an aiff-file? i (a confessed windozer) didn't know 
this was possible.

thanks,
robbo

James Keepnews schrieb:

> Hey, Larry, your mother's maiden name wouldn't Penfield by any chance, 
>would it? In any case, as far as downloads go, I'd say anything should go 
>and, then, go on-line -- WFM, WMF, SWM seeks same for hot predatory 
>business practices, no fakes, no fats, friends first, &c. However, 
>notably missing from these discussions are:
>
> * Shockwave audio -- plenty good, if you remember the brief thread on 
>this a few months back. Plus which, the plug-ins required are pretty 
>pervasive in Netscape and IE these days. Strange to buy an animation 
>program (Flash) or more expensive presentation program (Director) to get 
>this highly flexible compression codec, but of such comprimises are 
>downloads made;
>
> * Quicktime -- Travis, jump all over this. Embed MIDI or video or just 
>send your audio a'streaming (QT 4 only, in this last scenario). My 
>favorite multimedia codec, bar none, and rare is the Windows box what 
>don't gots;
>
> * AIFF -- Hello? Is there something so terrible about this fairly 
>standard standard? A nominally clever desktop audiologist can find tools 
>to compress this file format down to size -- MP3-size, in fact, and far, 
>far better sounding than its well-hyped cohort. Size doesn't matter, 
>after all...
>
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> > >And, unlike RM, these products don't cause your
> > >listeners the pain of surreptitious downloads like the AOL Messaging; 
>nor
> > >will they end up using your personal data without your permission, as 
>Real
> > >was caught doing recently.
> >
> > Are you saying Micro$oft doesn't peek at your hard-drive to see what
> > you have loaded and send that info back to Redmond? They've been
> > caught doing this several times. Internet Explorer was *engineered*
> > for this very purpose. In fact, users of IE are prone to all kinds
> > of security breaches, viruses and other mayhem via ActiveX controls,
> > serious program bugs and holes in the system.
> >
> > Just thought I had to set the record straight about this monopoly.
> >
> > - Larry