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To: Sam who wrote (7102)	9/20/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Respond to of 9256

Sam, From DiskCon link: <<Given enough storage capability, the home server "virtually could be the entertainment center for the home," storing movies, music and PC applications together, he said.>> Yeah, right. This type of networked managed storage is much more likely-- 'Digital Storage Locker' for Music Downloads t is an increasingly popular Internet activity: downloading, storing and playing digital music files on a computer or a portable player that can handle the MP3 digital music format. And it can be annoyingly difficult: Users often do not pay attention to where downloads land on their hard drives -- and since there is no industry-wide convention for naming music files, a song might arrive as a file called eleanorrigby.mp3 or, more blindly, 977X021.mp3. As a result, finding the downloaded tunes can be a scavenger hunt -- especially on Windows computers. Sensing a potential business opportunity, two executives with Internet start-up experience and venture capital have set up a Silicon Valley company called Myplay. .....More>> nytimes.com Paul