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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (3053)	3/10/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Steven Bowen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Slowwwwlllly sliding more and more off topic... MikeM, Regarding MP3 audio compression; I was totally unaware this technology existed until I stumbled onto it a couple months ago. Now it seems I was one of the last to know. As you have said, it is big and looks like it could become huge. I was looking for a way to record my audio CD's onto my hard drive. As you probably know, but others may not, MP3 is an excellent technology for accomplishing this. Further, a song that may take 40 or 50 Meg storage space in a WAV format, only takes 3 or 4 Meg in MP3. And as you've said, you can't tell the difference playing them back off your hard drive vs playing direct from the CD player. It get's it's compression somehow by eliminating the frequencies inaudible to the human ear and somehow compressing the dead spaces in a song. As cheap as hard drives are these days, I'm working on filling a new one with my CD library. It's just an easy way for me to have complete control of what I listen to in the background while I sit at this computer all day. A couple links if anyone is interested; mp3now.com And this is the best complete package I've found for both playing MP3 files and recording MP3 files from your audio CD's; musicmatch.com Not exactly Last Mile technology, but still pretty neat. Steve