Falk changes his tune (CEO of e.Digital Corp.):
Falk on November 3, 1999
IBM announced that it is using only EPAC encoded music for their Madison Project which is currently being conducted here in San Diego. As IBM announced, most of the major record labels are supporting this project, and thereby EPAC. The record labels are providing real top 20 content that the participants of the project are downloading to their computers.
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Falk on November 10, 1999
IBM announced that it is using only ePAC encoded music for their Madison Project which is being conducted in San Diego. Part of this project is a beta test to demonstrate that Internet downloadable music can be made secure. As IBM announced, most of the major record labels are supporting this project by providing real top 20 content that the participants of the project are downloading to their computers.
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Falk on November 3, 1999
In addition to supporting Lucent's EPAC, our player reference design also supports AAC (from Dolby), QDesign's Music Playback, Microsoft's Windows Media Player, Liquid Audio's SP3 as well as MP3.
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Falk on November 10, 1999
We firmly believe that over the next two years, Internet music players that invisibly support multiple formats will be the product of choice by digital music consumers.
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Falk on November 3, 1999
I'm sure you are aware of all the MP3 music players that are currently on the market. The only widespread,
downloadable content available is in MP3 format. Generally this format is used by unknown musicians and 'garage bands' to gain exposure.
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Falk on November 10, 1999
I'm sure you are aware of all the MP3 music players that are currently on the market. Based on industry information we expect the five major record labels to make desirable content available in several secure formats such as ePAC, AAC, Sony's A-Track, Qdesign's Music Playback and Microsoft's Windows Media Player.
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No hyping EPAC and no bashing MP3. However, he seems to think that the five major music companies will not be interested in MP3. |
