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Article: Two Labels Warm Up to MP3's - New York Times
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- The New York Times
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- May 29, 2003
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WHILE the record industry sweats over how to prevent consumers from transferring music from commercial CD's to digital files and swapping copyrighted material online, two labels are exploring a different approach to the format battle. In early April, the Palm and Mute labels began to release discs that include unprotected MP3 files along with conventional CD audio tracks. Palm, working with a small independent label, Kemado, released ''Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid'' from the New York band Elefant; fans can listen to all 10 tracks on a CD player or in MP3 format, and the disc includes a bonus song available only in MP3 format.Mute, well known among fans of electronic music, released a double ...