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Op Ed: What Do “Mastered for iTunes” and “Sound Check” Do To Music Listening?
One way or another, Apple is involved in a whole lot of the music to which people listen. Here, writer David Dodson considers what that means (and similar issues with other digital music listening beyond Apple, like Spotify. Photo CC-BY) Yutaka Tsutano. What does it mean to “master for iTunes?” Apple tripped that question with […]
Read moreUpdated: MPEG LA Pool Planning to Torpedo OGG Theora, Says Jobs
RichardL notes some potentially major news this afternoon. Shortly after my post, Steve Jobs himself reportedly answered an open letter written by free software advocate Hugo Roy. Hugo’s letter contained suggestions about whether a standardized unencumbered video codec needed to accompany the video tag in order to be truly “open.” The original post, on “hugo’s […]
Peter Kirn - April 30, 2010
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YouTube Tricks: High Quality Uploads, Viewing, and MP4 Downloads
No matter how committed you are to some of the alternatives, Google’s YouTube will remain part of your online life. So we continue our look at how to make it more livable. Readers wrote in with some tips and impressions of YouTube’s new "higher-quality video" mode: Make Your YouTube More Livable: I Have a Fast […]
Peter Kirn - April 19, 2008
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