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Under Microsoft's new restrictions -- which prevent its built-in software from recording
MP3 files at fidelity rates higher than 56 kilobits per second -- MP3 music "sounds like
somebody in a phone booth underwater," says P.J. McNealy, an analyst who researches
Internet audio issues for Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. (Existing versions of Microsoft's
audio software don't allow consumers to record music as MP3 files of any quality.)
The new restrictions in Windows XP won't prevent other vendors' software applications
from recording MP3 music at a higher fidelity, but early testers of beta versions of Windows
XP already complain that the most popular MP3 recording applications -- which compete with
Microsoft's format -- don't seem to function properly, apparently because of changes
Microsoft made to how data are written on CD-ROMs under Windows XP. Microsoft says
that while other software vendors' products may not be "optimized" to run with Windows XP,
those products should run acceptably with the operating system.
[^] # Re: limite à 56 Kbps ?
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Under Microsoft's new restrictions -- which prevent its built-in software from recording
MP3 files at fidelity rates higher than 56 kilobits per second -- MP3 music "sounds like
somebody in a phone booth underwater," says P.J. McNealy, an analyst who researches
Internet audio issues for Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. (Existing versions of Microsoft's
audio software don't allow consumers to record music as MP3 files of any quality.)
The new restrictions in Windows XP won't prevent other vendors' software applications
from recording MP3 music at a higher fidelity, but early testers of beta versions of Windows
XP already complain that the most popular MP3 recording applications -- which compete with
Microsoft's format -- don't seem to function properly, apparently because of changes
Microsoft made to how data are written on CD-ROMs under Windows XP. Microsoft says
that while other software vendors' products may not be "optimized" to run with Windows XP,
those products should run acceptably with the operating system.