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To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (289)	2/20/2001 10:18:54 AM
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To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (289)	2/23/2001 1:56:16 PM
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Vivendi/Sony "virtual jukebox" due in summer By William Emmanuel PARIS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp, which control two of the world's largest music groups, said on Thursday they were on track to launch a joint online music service or "virtual jukebox" this summer. The Internet service will challenge Napster, the popular online song-swap service, which earlier this week offered to pay over $1 billion over five years to the recording industry to end a bitter lawsuit that threatens its survival. It also throws down the gauntlet to German media giant Bertelsmann, which joined forces with Napster in October in an effort to resolve the company's legal problems. The project was originally announced without much fanfare by Sony and Universal Music, then a unit of Seagram, in May 2000. "It is an alternative to Napster which will allow us to monitor exactly which titles have been listened to and downloaded," Pascal Negre, head of Paris-based Vivendi Universal's Universal Music France, told Reuters. "It is over a secure network that prevents the item from getting distributed all over the Internet and provides better sound quality." Vivendi Chairman Jean-Marie Messier said in an interview published on Thursday that the new venture, which has the working name Duet, was already operational through a team in San Francisco. Sony told Reuters it would be based in New York. In addition to the music of Universal and Sony Music, the new site plans to buy licencing rights from other music companies, Messier said. "We hope to license 50 percent of the world's music," Messier said. TALKS WITH OTHERS Messier said the venture was not pursuing an alliance with Napster but was in advanced discussions with other partners. "We often thought that an alliance with Napster would be the only possibility but I don't believe it is right to give the advantage to pirates," he told the newspaper. Sony and Vivendi will have equal ownership of Duet and will offer both a subscription service and a pay-per-listen option. Universal, Warner Music, EMI Group Plc, Sony and Bertelsmann AG first sued Napster in December 1999, on copyright grounds, after Napster offered their music via its song-swapping service. Bertelsmann later broke ranks with other labels and joined forces with Napster in October, to launch a subscription-based service. The German group has since been holding talks with the other music majors to try to convince them to join the venture. Universal, Warner Music, EMI, Sony and Bertelsmann's BMG control some 75 percent of the world music market. The global music market is estimated at an annual $40 billion and online music could reach $8.6 billion by 2005, according to research firm Jupiter. Jupiter estimates that sales from music downloading will represent 9.1 percent of total industry sales from 2001. Universal Music France chief Negre said he did not expect prices for online music to decline, noting that the price of compact discs had risen at a rate that was three times lower than the average rise in consumer prices since 1970. The Duet news had little impact on Vivendi's share price on Thursday, which ended down 0.29 percent at 69.50 euros. 12:58 02-22-01

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (289)	2/23/2001 2:01:04 PM
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The new site, which will licence the music of the world's leading music groups Sony and Vivendi <V.N>, plans to buy licencing rights from other music companies.

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (289)	2/24/2001 4:56:48 PM
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This $11.95 program lets a person capture what's going to your sound card, and save it to your hard drive. So if you're hearing it, this will write it to disk. DOOM for TTRE's crappy method? What say the crimmy POS touts to that? Diverting the Audio Stream wired.com It's always been cake to save Web pages and graphics to disk ... so why is it such a pain to save audio streams? While it's cool of NPR to put those Terry Gross interviews with John Waters and De La Soul on the Web in RealAudio, what do Ido if I want to hear Terry grilling Stan Lee on the cultural relevance of Spiderman while I'm on the chairlift with my laptop? Without a Save function in RealPlayer or a wireless Web connection, I'm screwed. The big players (namely Microsoft and Real) have bent over backward to keep audio pirates at bay; I don't want to burn anyone, but I would like to be able to archive a few audio streams to match my lifestyle. Going straight for the jugular, Canada's High Criteria has created the downloadable Total Recorder 2.2, which intercepts audio headed for your sound card's driver. An included utility lets you divert the audio signal to disk in WAV format, after it leaves the app but before it hits the sound card. In other words, it doesn't matter which audio application or copy protection schemes are in use - Total Recorder does exactly what its name implies. By offering a metasolution to the audio-saving problem, High Criteria has made it as easy to rip a soundtrack from DVD as to squirrel away a copy of a live Engelbert Humperdinck webcast. But it gets better: The software also lets you schedule tapings, which is great if you want to record audio events taking place on the other side of the planet in the middle of the night. Just make sure you have a reliable connection; otherwise you'll end up recording the inevitable dropouts along with the good stuff. You'll also want plenty of disk space on reserve to absorb the giant WAVs Total Recorder will create. In fact, my biggest gripe with the current version is the Total Absence of built-in compression facilities. To turn those space-hogging WAVs into MP3s, you've got to drag them into a separate MP3 encoder. Fortunately, High Criteria is promising a future release with in-line compression. Total Recorder gives Windows people a way to do what BeOS and Linux users have been doing all along with native-system functions. The big boys of audio are going to have to jump pretty high to get around this brilliant hack. - Scot Hacker Total Recorder 2.2: $11.95. High Criteria: +1 (905) 787 1216, www.highcriteria.com.

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (289)	2/24/2001 5:00:48 PM
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Total Recorder represents a new generation of sound recording programs. It can record sound being played by other sound players, either from a file or from the Internet. It can also record conventional audio from CD's, microphone and other lines on a sound card. highcriteria.com For details see Total Recorder overview. You may also read FAQ. To download the evaluation version click either of the following: totre301.exe* - a self-extracting ZIP file (944,128 bytes) for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 or totre301.zip* - a regular ZIP file (915,758 bytes) for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000. * - Version 3.0.1 fixes some compatibility issues found in the original 3.0. To find more details click here. The evaluation version is fully functional except that your recordings are limited to 40 seconds each. For unlimited recording you need to register this product (registered users of the previous versions click here). The registration fee is only $11.95 US or $17.95 Canadian. You can pay by credit card or by cheque. You can get your registration code instantly by completing our online secure credit card order form (E-mail address is required). Or you can mail us a cheque and have your registration code mailed to you. Register Total Recorder online by credit card Registration by cheque Other product and company names appearing in High Criteria Inc. products and materials are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Registered and unregistered trademarks used in any High Criteria Inc. products and materials are the exclusive property of their respective owners. Return to the product list