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To: B. A. Marlow who wrote (2621)	4/14/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: Mark Fleming	Read Replies (2) of 5843

Note on RNWK's acquisition of Xing: In acquiring Xing for $75mm, RNWK's buying Xing's proprietary technology and utilities for content creators; Xing performs file conversion to MP3 format. Its claim to fame is that it does this quickly. On the other hand, it does not apparently create a full-resolution (let's say, truly CD-quality) MP3 file. Some of my elves are saying Xing's MP3 implementation is fairly crude and doesn't really do justice to the MP3 format. MSFT may have a point. More on this in future posts. I sent the above comment to a personal friend within XING who is in the know. The following is his comment: "That's not true. The Xing implementation is higher quality than any of the other MP3 implementations, and the variable bitrate capability produces even higher quality. We used to hear the same criticisms about our JPEG and MPEG video implementations because people couldn't believe our speeds."

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