By Lee Gomes, Forbes.com

Byline says Gomes, but I'm thinking this trend is old enough for Romero.

fta Back in the early days of the Internet, when 2400 baud dial-up modems roamed the earth, it would take more than an hour and a half to transmit that much information, assuming you could keep the connection going that long.

I need to learn how to be a smoother criminal.

FLAC is not new. At all.

Spin reduction:

Internet locales that are hosts to music piracy file sharing--which goes by the euphemism of "file sharing piracy"

Wow.

Cool article from 1996. I wonder when the new Pentium processors will be coming in? And I'm really looking forward to Windows Millennium. I bet it's a stable OS.

"Of Merlin wise I learned a song,--
Sing it low, or sing it loud,
It is mightier than the strong,
And punishes the proud.
I sing it to the surging crowd,--
Good men it will calm and cheer,
Bad men it will chain and cage.
In the heart of the music peals a strain
Which only angels hear;
Whether it waken joy or rage,
Hushed myriads hark in vain,
Yet they who hear it shed their age,
And take their youth again."

- 'Merlin's Song' by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1846)

Does "Welcome to the Jungle" really need to be heard in a Lossless format?

skinink: Does "Welcome to the Jungle" really need to be heard in a Lossless format?

No, but "November Rain" certianly does...

They have to stop letting media people write about computer stuff.

Really.

So, are there any Palm OS programs out there for listening to these lossless formats on my Palm TX?

"Back in the early days of the Internet, when 2400 baud dial-up modems roamed the earth, it would take more than an hour and a half to transmit that much information"

2400 baud... that's 300 bytes a second (2400 bits a second), right? So that's roughly 1 megabyte an hour. It would take 28 hours... Am I wrong?

/Hot like molasses on a cold day..

Look, I buy that at least a quarter of you can tell the difference between 192k and 128k. And maybe a few of you find an improvement with 256k. But lossless from an already-lossy CD? Really?

This would be more like an Obvious thing than a Spiffy thing. Almost Ric Romero obvious.
Subby: "*gasp* oh my god, there are other "formats" beside "mp3" for stealing music from CDs and internets to store on your computor."

FAIL

macadamiaman:
2400 baud... that's 300 bytes a second (2400 bits a second), right? So that's roughly 1 megabyte an hour. It would take 28 hours... Am I wrong?

I came here to say that. I remember the 2400bps days, and it was a 1 meg per hour at best. And when I say at best, I mean downloading at 2400bps usually involved a transfer protocol like Xmodem, which did not have error correction. Line noise, someone picking up the phone, etc. would nuke the download. It wasn't until speeds kicked up to around 9600 that Ymodem, Zmodem, and other protocols offered software based error correction. Then the mighty 14.4k modem came along, and the even mightier US Robotics modems boasting hardware based error correction and compression.

So yeah, it was 1mb per hour then, but games frequently didn't exceed 1 mb compressed either. Good ole Jones in the Fast Lane . . .

In an attempt to be on top, Farker stevegarbowski is now on the bottom. Even though you signed up a year ago, welcome to Fark.

wow, I'm quite surprised ABCNews even knew what a computer is. For them to cover this, even moreso.

Riffington: Look, I buy that at least a quarter of you can tell the difference between 192k and 128k. And maybe a few of you find an improvement with 256k. But lossless from an already-lossy CD? Really?

FLAC (or other lossless format) makes a great archival format: you can always reconstitute it in the original quality and re-encode it to whatever lossy algorithm (MP3, AAC, Vorbis, etc.) that you wish.

/has a bunch of old MP2s that he lost the originals for

ABC now a division of the FOX News Network.

I'm not even any kind of tech geek or audio expert and that article made me cringe.

where can i download the occasional song my daughter wants in mp3 format for free? the wife and i still buy cds but i aint buying jonas brothers or hannah montana for one song she likes cuz of disney channel.

yea i know.. i sound old. off lawn

texquire: macadamiaman:
2400 baud... that's 300 bytes a second (2400 bits a second), right? So that's roughly 1 megabyte an hour. It would take 28 hours... Am I wrong?

I came here to say that. I remember the 2400bps days, and it was a 1 meg per hour at best. And when I say at best, I mean downloading at 2400bps usually involved a transfer protocol like Xmodem, which did not have error correction. Line noise, someone picking up the phone, etc. would nuke the download. It wasn't until speeds kicked up to around 9600 that Ymodem, Zmodem, and other protocols offered software based error correction. Then the mighty 14.4k modem came along, and the even mightier US Robotics modems boasting hardware based error correction and compression.

So yeah, it was 1mb per hour then, but games frequently didn't exceed 1 mb compressed either. Good ole Jones in the Fast Lane . . .

But who actually connected to the internet via a 2400 baud modem? I'm sure some people did, but I would imagine that most people's first internet experience was on at least a 14.4 modem.

zfarkingman: where can i download the occasional song my daughter wants in mp3 format for free? the wife and i still buy cds but i aint buying jonas brothers or hannah montana for one song she likes cuz of disney channel.

yea i know.. i sound old. off lawn

Torrents, my friend, torrents.

Everyone Has Taken The Good Names: Spin reduction:

Internet locales that are hosts to music piracy file sharing--which goes by the euphemism of "file sharing piracy"

Uhhh, no, it was way right before. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE pirating music 'cause I ain't got no money, but let's not beat around the bush about what we're doing here.