Progressive Coder
XM faces legal action from the RIAA - The Digital Music Weblog
> Although usually such good friends, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Satellite radio provider XM have just fallen out over a new portable digital music player and they’re airing their dirty laundry in public with a multi-million dollar law suit.
They’re [...]
EFF: DeepLinks
> The Washington Post reports that Senators Feinstein (D-Cal.) and Graham (R-S.C.) have introduced S. 2644, dubbed the PERFORM Act, that is aimed at punishing satellite radio for offering its subscribers devices capable of recording off the air.
> Buried in the bill, however, is a provision that would effectively require music webcasters to use [...]
PBS | I, Cringely . December 8, 2005 – Lock and Load
> Two interesting events took place while I was distracted with Google over the past couple weeks — events that give us just a bit more information about where the future of digital media distribution is likely to end up, and the risks companies [...]
Slim Devices : Squeezebox : Free your music!
I really want one of these. Hook it up to your living room stereo, and stream your music collection from your PC in your room via wifi – controlling the whole thing with a nice remote.
If you have several players, you can easily lock them together, and [...]
CNN Pipeline review by PC Magazine
> You may have streamed the NBC Nightly News to your Web browser. You may have watched the Video Music Awards at MTV.com. But you’ve never seen Internet television quite like this. Yesterday marked the official debut of CNN Pipeline, a 24-hour, commercial-free online television station broadcasting from its own [...]
Nokia holds fire on mobile gaming – vnunet.com
> Nokia is holding off on mobile gaming for a few years and will not be building new versions of the N-Gage gaming phone.
Not really a big surprise. If I want to play games, I’ll use a GameBoy or a PSP, and if I want to make calls, [...]
The Wall Street Journal – Sprint Brings Music Direct to Cellphones, But Price Is Too High
> I have been testing the new Sprint Music Store and found it works well. The user interface is clean and simple, even on a small screen. The downloads, and playing of previews, are very fast over Sprint’s new broadband-class [...]
I’m beginning do develop a strong dislike for the RealPlayer Nokia bundles with most of its phones. Why on earth does that one player have to behave differently from all other players? When you start researching that player, it turns out that loads of people are having problems delivering content to this software, and Nokia’s [...]
Work has required me to look into streaming of audio/video at work, and as we’re mainly a Java shop, I’ve been struggling with audio decoding/encoding and Java. Java really needs to get its act together, and come up with a streamlined & polished media solution that actually works out of the box. I’ve been forced [...]
I’ve been working on audio encoding using Java at work for a while, and one problem I ran into was with Tritonus and encoding a pcm stream to Ogg Vorbis. No matter what I did, I only got sound in the left channel.
It seems Tritonus assumes that the channel buffers from libvorbis are allocated [...]