[Ti] [OT] Applemusic.com - is the price right?

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Mark O'Brien paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 09:50  AM, Steve Wozniak wrote:
>
>>Or listen to a minidisk? MD does always sound better than MP3 to me.
>
>Aren't minidiscs encoded in a proprietary format called ATRAC (which 
>sounds like 8-track to me)?
>
>Mark

Yup. Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding.

It is pretty technical stuff, but, basically it is a three-band 
compression system that compresses less-important frequencies, more, 
and more important frequencies, less. heheh, you got that?

Tech Junkie? Go here: http://www.minidisc.org/aes_atrac.html

~flipper