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

[James Keepnews <keepnews@node.net>]

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