RE: NTLK Other - MP3 players

From: James L. Johnson (jimjohnson@novagate.com)
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 11:18:03 EST


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>If only someone invented a gadget that plays MP3's stored on MiniDisks...
>Would kick all these Rio's etc. off the surface of the earth immediately.
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Hmmm...

Not sure this would work. They both use a compression algorithm:
MP3 (MPEG layer 3?)
MiniDisc (ATRAC?)

Could you 'double compress'? I don't think so, but I could be wrong.

Cheers,

Jim.

James L. Johnson
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