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Lydstrom Licensing Lucent's EPAC for Home Network Device
Boston-based consumer electronics company Lydstrom, Inc. plans to license audio coder technology from Lucent Technologies for use in a forthcoming CD player that stores, plays and catalogs 5,000 songs downloaded from the Internet, or culled from CD collections.
Lydstrom will use Lucent's Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder (EPAC), which compresses digital music into files just 9% of their original size, without loss of audible fidelity. EPAC encoding will be used in Lydstrom's SongBank MZ3-5000, scheduled for availability December, 1999.
Lydstrom plans to market the SongBank player as a component for networked home entertainment systems. The unit will feature search and catalog functions that use a touch-screen remote control. Used with a networked home entertainment system, a user can access music from anywhere in the home. The player will even be able to delivery multiple, different streams of music to different parts of the home, according to a Lydstrom press release.
"Listening to Internet music is no longer confined to the PC-centric world," said Lydstrom President Rahul Shah of the company's new product. "Now, the music lover is closer to having a virtual on-demand universal music library than ever before."
Based on Lucent's Perceptual Audio Coder, EPAC is a digital audio compression/decompression algorithm intended for use as a reference design in handheld audio devices that play music downloaded from the Internet.
Lucent has paired with e.Digital Corporation to develop a portable audio player that the partners intend to license to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Further, Lucent and e.Digital plan to license their reference design to other player manufacturers interested in entering the growing portable audio device market [see 6.29.99 Portable Device Maker e.Digital Receives $3M Investment].
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