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BACH Technology developing new audio file format for online music outlets

news article released on: 22 January, 2010

BACH Technology, a technology company based in Norway, Germany and China, which also has the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology as a partner, is pushing a new digital music file format that could be used with legal online music stores. MusicDNA focuses on embedding more content into the file, such as song lyrics and images, as well as making them capable of receiving media ...

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#1 22 Jan 2010 @ 19:54
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update on a song that for the most part has a 10 month shelf life on the charts ??? and lets not forget if you share the song file the updates might be able to track the user by ip adderss . this seams like a candy covered way to sniff out people who get songs for free(nice way to say steal) and make them pay for it
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#2 22 Jan 2010 @ 21:11
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Sounds like another DRM'd format to me.
#3 22 Jan 2010 @ 23:07
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Perhapse not as bad as DRM...at least when they turn off these servers, you still have MP3s.

I am still not sure it brings much to the table...MP3 ID3 already has the capacity to hold a wealth of information and multiple pages of cover art. The reason this is not often used to capacity is that the ID3 tag can easily become larger than the MP3 audio...and the whole point of MP3 is small file size (otherwise we would all be using FLAC). The only difference here is the ability to get updates, and I assume that requires some kind of special player software...

...but at least it isnt DRM.
#4 23 Jan 2010 @ 11:00
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Good luck with this! if your computer has the internet access to update song data, why is it not sufficient to create a plug-in that will provide the same function? Why do I need to know tour dates when my internet is disconnected?

Seems like a pretty obviously bad reason to create a new container to me xD
#5 23 Jan 2010 @ 15:12
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Do we really need yet another file format? Seriously? It's ridiculous how many there already are right now. And as far as this new format being some kind of game changer in the fight against piracy, I think anyone who thinks that way is a fool. There's nothing here at least from my interpritatation of the article that leads me to believe it will do anything. As another poster mentioned, album/artist info can already be added to mp3's. And if you're a big enough fan of a badn then you'll have no problem taking the time to lookup when and where their next show is.
#6 24 Jan 2010 @ 21:42
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The fact that it streams info to the file what is stopping it from collecting info and using it against you. Worse than DRM :)
#7 25 Jan 2010 @ 16:51
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"What we are bringing back to the end user"
I see what you did there.

In any event, this is a plate full o fail. If I want song lyrics I know just where to go. Oh, but they want to control THAT as well. Some time in the future some RIAA goon will jump out from behind the bushes and yell "hey you! Thats copyrighted!" if you break wind to one of "their" tunes.
#8 28 Jan 2010 @ 11:54
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I do not know how we have lived with out this! Music ought to be 90% useless garbage. 20 pics of each artist plus their complete bio. That way you need to buy bigger portables. I am sure they will want to keep crappy bits rates. I can't figure out why they didn't team up with Zune.

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#9 21 Apr 2010 @ 5:19
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The above thought is smart and doesn’t require any further addition.mobile phones
It’s perfect thought from my side.
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