[mdlug] DRM Wal-Mart

[Brian]

On Tuesday 08 April 2008 02:30:03 pm Wolfger wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:25 PM, gib at juno.com <gib at juno.com> wrote:
> >  This article talks about Wal-Mart Digital Rights Management (DRM)
> > effort. They will only use MP3 format music.
>
> Huh? The article talks about Wal-Mart's effort to be DRM-free. MP3
> format does not support DRM. Ogg and FLAC are arguably better formats,
> and they are Free, but they also play on very few devices. I'm
> currently re-ripping my entire CD library to MP3 because I made the
> mistake of ripping to Ogg the first time, and my new player (and most
> available players) does not play Ogg files. :-(

I'm not sure that I'd classify ripping to a higher quality and open format a 
mistake rather than buying a player that didn't support it ;)

-- 
Brian
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