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Title: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: JimH on April 12, 2003, 04:35:04 am

Universal Music is the largest of the 5 major record labels and Steve Jobs and Apple seem interested in buying it from Vivendi, a French conglomerate, who bought it a few years ago from Seagrams.

http://news.com.com/2100-1025-996619.html

I don't know exactly what it means, but it is a very interesting development.

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: zevele10 on April 12, 2003, 06:26:47 am

http://news.com.com/2010-1071-995188.html

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: KingSparta on April 12, 2003, 07:41:38 am

>> Steve Jobs and Apple seem interested
>> in buying it from Vivendi
that might be a good idea for Apple

then release it on crack prof encoding only playable on Apple computers. this way someone will buy there computers and that will increase there market share.

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: MachineHead on April 12, 2003, 08:13:52 am

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then release it on crack prof encoding only playable on Apple computers. this way someone will buy there computers and that will increase there market share.

Proprietary formats won't land them many sales.

Must have at least several format choices and quality levels. Price could be based on this. No one with even a passing knowledge of digital media is gonna be snookered into thinking that WMA @ 64 kbs is good stuff.

Should they do it, they should make the iPod a more then one trick pony as far as formats are concerned. READ: OGG and MPC support. Ooooh, there's a thought.

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: KingSparta on April 12, 2003, 08:24:11 am

the problem then would be if Apple wants this to increase sales for now they will have to control the media format.

that means it will need to be an Apple Only secure format.

that would not make me run out and buy an apple but it may help them with others.

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: TimB on April 12, 2003, 11:48:39 am

Great news, their CD's will look much cooler and come in more colors than everyone else's and cost 2x as much. ;)

(Said with love.)

-=Tim=-

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: iCamp on April 12, 2003, 07:54:23 pm

:) LOL!!

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Must have at least several format choices and quality levels.

Word on the street (so to speak) is that their download service will be exclusively AAC files.  The next gen iPods (rumored to release sometime this century) will support AAC as will current models via download.

So, where's that AAC support in MC??  ;)

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: MachineHead on April 12, 2003, 08:57:38 pm

Nothing wrong with AAC! With a little trickery, you can get MC to play AAC. Tags are another matter though.

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: px2so on April 13, 2003, 12:14:08 am

What does ACC stands for?

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: Cmagic on April 13, 2003, 12:39:08 am

Hello,

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What does ACC stands for?

You mean AAC, don't you ?
It's another compression format for music just like WMA, MP3, OGG, MPC.
AAC means Advanced Audio Coding and is part of the MPEG-4 standard. Apple computer is a supporter of this format. If you want to learn more on AAC and other audio compression format a gook link is
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/

Ciao,

C.

Title: Re: Apple may want to buy Universal Music
Post by: Cmagic on April 13, 2003, 12:40:41 am

You might also find this "apple" link on AAC useful -> http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/aac/

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