Siggraph audience takes Sony to task on DRM
Talkback Or ATRAC for that matter? If Sony believes there should be interoperability, when is Sony's music business launching its service to exchange FairPlay protected tracks for PlaysForSure protected tracks?
[August 2, 2006, 12:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Until now, just about all of Sony's audio digital players -- minidisk, flash and hard disk -- have only worked with its own ATRAC compression format. Yet Sony insists that you convert all your music from MP3 or whatever to ATRAC, and helpfully...
[September 24, 2004, 18:15]
Sound Forge
Downloads Version 8.0d build 128 includes numerous fixes and improvements including support for opening and rendering ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless files. Sound Forge software is the tool of choice for media professionals who want to create...
[February 8, 2008, 7:00]
Switch Sound File Converter
Downloads Converts a variety of audio file formats to mp3 or wav such as: wav, mp3, mp2, mpga, m4a, ogg, avi, mid, flac, aac, wma, dct, au, aiff, ogg, raw, msv, dvf, vox, cda, atrac, gsm, dss, sri, shn, dss, msv, wmv.
[August 20, 2009, 4:14]
Taking the rap for DRM
Leader ATRAC, AAC, WMA, with all that DRM they can play the trick again, it's yo' that they're managin' and yo' don't mean a thing Rapper and new media entrepreneur Chuck D has made his feelings about current DRM usage painfully clear.
[September 19, 2006, 16:05]
Antivirus firms consider protection against Sony DRM rootkit
Talkback The list includes Minidisc, ATRAC, Memory Stick, Betamax, Blu Ray DVD, HiFD, DAT, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, UMD, SACD, ATRAC3. I think the best thing we can do is boycott ALL Sony products. Let's start with the Playstation 2 and PSP and then move...
[November 4, 2005, 22:02]
Amid rootkit fiasco, Sony's ray of hope
Leader For 15 years, the company has pushed its own music-compression format, ATRAC, to the exclusion or deprecation of MP3. For long-term students of technology, Sony rates as one of the most frustrating companies on the planet.
[August 31, 2007, 17:09]
Sony revamps PalmOS-based PDA
News The new Clie will be able to play both MP3 audio files and those in Sony's digital format, ATRAC 3. The consumer electronics giant announced Tuesday it will begin shipping its second-generation Clie device, the PEG N710C, early next month in the US.
[May 1, 2001, 16:26]
