Bach Launches Updated MP3 Format 279
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Bach Technology has rolled out an updated MP3 file format in a bid to combat music piracy. Dubbed "MusicDNA," the new format offers embedded "updatable premium content" like lyrics, videos, news updates, and album artwork. "Using the new technology, music labels and bands will be able to send updates to the music files – with tour dates, interviews or updates to social networking pages – while illegally-downloaded files remain static. ... No major labels have signed up to use MusicDNA so far, but British record company Beggars Group and US label Tommy Boy are both on board. However, the files are likely to be more expensive than MP3 files – according to the BBC – and will have to compete with Apple's iTunes LP, which already provides additional content such as bonus tracks, lyrics and video interviews."
Re:Sounds like features I need from an audio file (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds like features I need from an audio file (Score:5, Funny)
So if I want to buy music legitly, in addition to paying for the track I will now also get spammed with ads?
But wait, there's more!
Re:What CDs? (Score:2, Funny)
Do the record labels even make record labels any more?
The REAL (secret) marketing plan. (Score:4, Funny)
You guys are missing the real, secret marketing plan. Those files will be available P2P. The "album art" will not be the tiny little CD cover, but a goatse. Fans of music that would like a goatse will get a different yet equally offensive picture. The "social networking" will not "friend" you to the band, but to alqada or some other james bond-ian villian. Instead of the web integration making the band your new homepage, it will make 4chan your new home page (assuming it isn't already, of course). You get the idea, basically it'll be trash.
And those "bad" files will be widely distributed P2P by the music middlemen themselves, to poison the well. I can see the whiny public service infomercial now... "remember when you could download music safely? Well those days are over, now a simple music file and totally screw up your computer and ipod. But on the good side, you can pay a mere $2 per track for one of our guaranteed SAFE music files at our new web store."
Re:Sounds like features I need from an audio file (Score:4, Funny)
HILDEBRAND Hi. I'm Andy Hildebrand, [wikipedia.org] and I'm here with my good friend Paul Northfield [wikipedia.org], and we're here to discuss why this albums sounds the way it does.
NORTHFIELD: What's so impressive about this album? I'd like to point out that this track is particularly loud. By keeping the basic beat at fairly steady -0.5 dbFS, we were able to achieve a dynamic punch heretofore unrealized in the industry.
HILDEBRAND: One of the problems with singing that loudly, of course is that sometimes a singer's voice distorts. By applying a proprietary algorithm, we able to ensure that the distortion is minimal.
But can you imagine the impact!!! (Score:3, Funny)
If a planet-killer asteroid was entering the atmosphere at this very moment, they'd be scheduling a meeting for later in the week to discuss how to put a banner ad on it.
Can you imagine the impact of that advertisement though. DODGE TRUCK, BUILT ASTEROID TOUGH
Re:Combatting Piracy (Score:3, Funny)
Pirate going to the show...
Let's see.... stand in line for 4 hours, check.
Get herded like cattle for 1 hour, check.
Sit in tiny seats crammed in next to a sweaty fat guy, or a fratboy that wont shut the hell up, check.
now spend the convert standing and not being ableto see the stage, check.
Get beer spilled on you, check.
I'll rip my buddy's dvd of the bands concert and watch it in my home theater on a 150" screen with a better sound system than the band has.
Only thing I'm missing is getting assaulted by drunks, and seeing some ugly chicks show their boobs.