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Old 06-12-2005, 21:43
girojim
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It's starting to annoy me that MP3 players are advertised by saying how many mp3 or wma tracks the player can play.
Now for example: it may play 1500 mp3's or 3000 wma tracks.
Then in small type it says the bitrate is 128kb for the mp3's and 64kb for the wma tracks.
Now it doesn't take a genius to realise it's obvious that you can fit more tracks in if the bitrate is lower, so why do they do this, are they paid by Microsoft to promote their format?
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Old 06-12-2005, 22:05
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Not so much for Microsoft, but for the likes of online music stores, which often use WMA due to smaller size (less bandwidth costs for them), and ultimately, the DRM built into WMA.
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Old 07-12-2005, 16:50
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nothing to do with microsoft at all!
those mp3 and wma sizes are just suggestive, and by no means a definitive size of file to use with a player
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