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Technology Stocks : Liquid Audio Inc - (Nasdaq- LQID) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: R Hamilton who wrote (542)	1/22/2000 11:45:00 AM
From: FruJu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 674

Microsoft partners with Web music firm Liquid Audio Ahhh... now this is the sort of thing I like to wake up to read on a Saturday morning :) I'll bet it also explains the increased volume and run up from 20 this week - I bet someone knew about this early...

To: R Hamilton who wrote (542)	1/24/2000 7:51:00 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 674

I wouldn't get too excited about this announcement. LQID agrees to offer support for Microsoft's WMA format? Sounds like a good deal for MSFT, not LQID. What does LQID get out of the deal? >> Under the deal, Liquid Audio software will include support for Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format that is used to encode digital music so it takes up less space on a hard drive and can be sent quickly over the Internet. << Who cares, WMA sucks compared to Liquid Audio. If this was really a bullish announcement for LQID it would be a deal where MSFT would embrace Liquid Audio, not Liquid Audio embracing MSFT's technology. How about a deal where MSFT's media player can play Liquid Audio files. That would impress me a lot more. WMA is not going to replace the MP3. Liquid Audio could replace MP3 if it wasn't proprietary, because it uses a clearly superior codec.