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Article: REVIEW:MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution.(Review)
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- Telecomworldwire
- Article date:
- March 9, 2000
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MP3s, the much-hyped computer music format, is in a state of flux. Loved by net users, viewed with caution and suspicion by the music publishers and treated with God-like reverence by the technology writers jumping onto an (old) bandwagon.
In a nutshell MP3 is a digital music format which provides CD-quality sound in a reasonably well-compressed format. MP3 is becoming ever-pervasive: no longer do you need to listen to MP3s on your expensive home computer as you can now buy personal stereo-like devices for MP3 replay and ...