Sony To Support MP3
C|net reports that Sony has confirmed that it is working to add native MP3 support to its flash memory-based portable music players in an effort to gain competitive ground against rivals such as the iPod. Sony's players currently use a proprietary format called ATRAC which uses a different compression algorithm for maximizing the number of songs that can fit onto the devices. Apparently the changes are coming about due to consumer complaints that audio files from sources other than Sony's download site 'Connect' are unplayable on the company's portable offerings without first re-encoding the music to be read by the device.
Sony has yet to publicly announce whether they will support MP3 file playback on hard drive-based players.
Sony has yet to publicly announce whether they will support MP3 file playback on hard drive-based players.
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97 months ago
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Link: Key Change for Sony, allowing support for MP3
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Link: Key Change for Sony, allowing support for MP3
Posted on MacBytes.com
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97 months ago
Better late than never I suppose. Could they finally be learning their lesson?
97 months ago
They are also offering an adaptor that lets you play VHS tapes in your Beta deck.
97 months ago
Apparently the changes are coming about due to consumer complaints that audio files from sources other than Sony's download site 'Connect' are unplayable on the company's portable offerings without first re-encoding the music to be read by the device.
Followed immediately by, "I'm not getting anywhere close to 30 hours battery life."
Followed immediately by, "I'm not getting anywhere close to 30 hours battery life."
97 months ago
They are also offering an adaptor that lets you play VHS tapes in your Beta deck.
Funny, but I would love an adapter to let me play Beta tapes in my VHS deck. :D
97 months ago
Funny, but I would love an adapter to let me play Beta tapes in my VHS deck. :D
If you still have beta tapes to play, just go on ebay and look for a beta player. I just don't know why anyone would want to. But to each his own.Sony has always used their own, it's about time they left their archaic, backwards formats to more mainstream ones.
97 months ago
Damn, it's about time they see the light. Maybe they can take back the portable audio crown now.
97 months ago
Well, duh... what'd you expect Sony? All this quibbling about whose crap works with whom is really stunting growth in the portable music field. Can't we all just get along? Whoever does this first is going to clean up, but looks like Apple is doing fine.
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