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Napster and Penn State in Music Deal

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edited November 2003 in Science & Tech
In the first deal of its kind, Napster and Penn State University have come to an agreement over providing free access to the newly re-launched online music service.

[blockquote]In a statement, Penn State President Graham Spanier said the University signed a deal with Napster, a division of Roxio Inc., to launch a program in which Penn State will make Napster's service available for free to students.

Napster will offer those students unlimited streaming and tethered downloads from a digital library of more than 500,000 songs.

Students can also buy permanent downloads that can be burned to CDs or transferred to portable devices for 99 cents each, the company said.[/blockquote]
[link=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=575&ncid=738&e=6&u=/nm/20031106/wr_nm/media_napster_dc]The full story[/link]

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  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003

    Edited by mackanz cause he thinks Thrax is a nice guy.

    :D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I swear I was blindfolded, sacked, spun 12 times, and then forced to click the mouse button when I posted that.

    //EDIT:

    On second thought. I know for a <b>fact</b> that I did not post that in this thread.

    I specifically posted it in the thread which refers to Intel's new High-K transistor. The same thread which has appeared and disappeared within 3 minutes TWICE now from the news forum.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    VERY confusing indeed. Admins?
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    ITS A CONSPIRACY! LOCK THE COFFEE TIN!

    Hmm.... Streaming Music? Streaming audio sounds like you are listening to it through cans. No, I don't mean headphones, I mean it sounds like you have 2 baked bean cans strapped to your head, and you are listening to it through a "Free with every pack of Shreddies" pair of speakers.

    NS
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    ;D

    You know, there are 192kbps streaming channels with shoutcast, and those are fabulous I've discovered.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    True, but I want Quality 9 OGG files streamed, or at least 320K highest quality encoded MP3, and I highly doubt they do it, as I am infact one of those analy retentive people who can hear the difference.

    NS
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    The difference between 192 and 320kbps...Eh, that's largely doubtful my friend.

    Even CDs are approximately 178kbps and no higher.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I really dont see how you can compare a lossy format at only half it's max rate to the (essentially) lossless PCM Wave format the the audio is on on CD's.

    Though the loss could be put down to bad encoders, and it may be true with a perfectly effitient encoder, but CD's really couldn't be 178kbps (I take it you are refering to MP3).

    NS
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited November 2003
    Thrax had this to say
    I swear I was blindfolded, sacked, spun 12 times, and then forced to click the mouse button when I posted that.

    //EDIT:

    On second thought. I know for a <b>fact</b> that I did not post that in this thread.

    I specifically posted it in the thread which refers to Intel's new High-K transistor. The same thread which has appeared and disappeared within 3 minutes TWICE now from the news forum.

    I posted some news on the Intel thing, which had been submitted, then after checking things over, I realised it had already been posted, earlier on today, so I deleted the news post, as well as the corresponding thread here in the forums. The forums must have got a bit confused when you went to post your reply, as probably when you clicked 'post reply', the thread by that time had been deleted.

    I apologise, not your fault mate.
  • godzilla525godzilla525 Western Pennsylvania Member
    edited November 2003
    AARGH!!! CDs are ~1380kbps...

    Since Penn State terminated a deal with Microsoft they have a *lot* of Technology Fee money to play with :)...

    I'm kinda going to miss that deal becuase that's how I got WinXP, VS6, and Office for free. Now I see Linux and Open Office in my future :)

    Unfortunately it appears that they will be using Windows Media to do this... and from what I gather we will be able to download, but the license to play the files will expire upon graduation/withdrawl... I just hope they don't fall for the 64kbps = CD quality B.S. that Microsoft is pushing.

    There are more details on this here:
    http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031106/lath099_1.html
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Yeah, I saw as godzilla posted in the other thread (which Thrax MIS-quoted) that CD's were 178kBps, not 178kbps. Which makes a lot more sence.

    Thrax - You can't hear the difference, others can. If CD's were 178kbps then what would be the point in encoding at higher than 178? There wouldn't be any point.

    NS
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    then why do sooo many mp3 players have ridiciously high kBps?
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    WuGgaRoO had this to say
    then why do sooo many mp3 players have ridiciously high kBps?

    What??

    MP3 Players will normally play anything between 32 and 320Kbps.

    NS
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