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Faster music downloads for mobile phone users

article published on 30 May, 2007

The US software company Beatnik has begun approaching mobile phone operators with a new music download system that they say can compress songs up to 10 times better than the MP3 format. The new software would allow for much faster downloads on lower-end phones, says the company. Most music download services are only available to users with more expensive smartphones using 3G networks, ... [ read the full article ]

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OzMick
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_ 		30. May 2007 @ 14:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So, they're basically turning an MP3 into a MIDI by using samples. That will sound rubbish, songs will sound like a broken record jumping to the same section over and over. If you are that precious about storage space, you may as well just download a MIDI... They've already been doing that for the last 5 years.

Personally, I don't get why anyone would pay for a song download to their phone in the first place. A cheap USB IrDA adaptor only costs a couple bucks from the right place (US$4 including postage, https://www.kaidomain.com/WEBUI/ProductDetail.aspx?TranID=648), which works for most phones, and heaps now even have a direct mini USB adaptor.
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elfman12
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_ 		30. May 2007 @ 14:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No, it's much more sophisticated than that. It's really just a more intelligent compressions system (like zip/rar) that is tweaked for digital music and targeted to the limitations of the phone it's used on. For ex., if a phone can't produce anything over 16KHZ, why not keep the audio file under 16K as well? Stuff like that.

Beatnik is the company that Thomas Dolby started, so I'm sure that audio quality is valued highly... and that we'll be blinded by their science. :-)
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tefarko
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_ 		30. May 2007 @ 16:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yes, this is like the zip compression that uses a "dictionary" of repeated patterns... must be something new because zip/rar usually get bad compression rates with mp3 files...
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borhan9
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_ 		30. May 2007 @ 19:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is cool to have the new compression, but the question is. Is this a new DRM format as well??
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plazma247
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_ 		31. May 2007 @ 09:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
More nfo over at:

http://www.beatnik.com/products/technologies.html

But if its essentially is sp midi in their xmf format as the mime type indicates isnt it just another wav2midi convertor.

I agree with OzMick its gota sound pretty pants.
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Unfocused
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_ 		28. June 2007 @ 05:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It is getting to the point now that space on the phone really isn't becoming an issue like it once was.
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noelanne
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_ 		20. December 2008 @ 09:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
just want to know is there any downloads for the boxsuper starview3 as the went down 18/12/08
any help would be great
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