Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound Subject: Re: mp3 on yaroze.... Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 21:33:59 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 53 Message-ID: <38284159.283075591@news.playstation.co.uk> References: <7v2toh$6s1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7v4171$6kf1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7v7481$f4p1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <38197cd9.204929122@news.playstation.co.uk> <7vbsj3$7l1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <382360c0.221043974@news.playstation.co.uk> <3825b192.180732249@news.playstation.co.uk> <8076cp$j6n1@scea> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.27.57.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 I remember hearing something about that as well. The big problem is that MP3s have no standard on how they are actually stored on disc. This makes it hard to make a player that gives you a table of contents which is anything shorter than a browser for the whole CD. That means the files have to be self descriptive really. Steven On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:59:20 -0800, "Steve Spiller" wrote: >Man, I wish I could find the link... But, the other day I saw a news article >about a company that is making a home MP3 player. It will be able to read >up to 500 songs off of a standard CD(/R). It was pretty cool. Much easier >than setting up a PC in the living room, and you get a remote control. :) > >-Steve > >"Steven Osman" wrote in message >news:3825b192.180732249@news.playstation.co.uk... >> On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:37:19 +0000, Tony Ross >> wrote: >> >All new formats have to start somewhere! >> > >> >15 years ago most of my mates could not understand why I wanted a thing >> >called a CD player when you could hardly get any music for it and it >> >probably would not catch on or 10 years ago why I wanted a business type >> >PC in my home and 7 years ago they again wondered why I wanted access to >> >something called the Internet. >> > >> >Give me some credit mate! >> > >> >This is not intended as part of any type of flame war. I am just >> >answering some of your points. >> >All the best! >> >> >> By all means! I don't mean to discount anyone's opinion. I'm just >> uncertain of the success of mp3-on-cd. Perhaps it will work out, or >> perhaps not. Maybe we'll be seeing audio on DVDs which can probably >> store 50000000 hours per disc. >> >> My point is that mp3 may be reserved for a "download on demand" >> environment. For the PS2, this may be a good thing, with all the >> available expansion ports, etc, but as for the current psx, I'm not >> convinced about mp3 distrubution over CD... just yet... >> >> Steven >