Sci-fi or another compression breakthrough for digital music?
Company CEO Jamie True said in a press release today, "'ShrinkMyTunes addresses important and specific needs for anyone with a music collection and will be particularly popular with owners of iPod minis and shuffles, as well as new iPhone customers. There are currently over 11 million people in the UK alone that own an MP3 player and this sector is continuing to experience high growth."
The product will reportedly be available online and through HMV stores this fall.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Dr Rumble said 10:50PM on 7-26-2007
The secret: "We encode your MP3s at 48 kbps."
Ingenious.
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Grantium said 1:09AM on 7-27-2007
Exactly. These things come and go. MP3Pro was the last one.
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hazard said 10:51AM on 7-27-2007
aac @ 128k is the current king of the hill
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Dr Rumble said 11:24AM on 7-27-2007
Wait, are you serious? LAME MP3 with -V2 or -V0 switches are reigning supreme in the internet audio world as of now. AAC is wack, man. Also, for the love of pie, don't ever encode anything below 192 kbps.
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