Seven of the UK’s most important music download retailers have launched a campaign to help consumers make sense of the popular music format MP3.7digital.com, Digitalstores.co.uk, HMV.com, Play.com, Tescodigital.com, Tunetribe.com and Woolworthsdownload.co.uk will all use a new “MP3 compatible” logo to indicate to customers that downloads will play on every PC, Mac and on virtually every available digital music player.
The logo has been devised by ERA Digital, the digital grouping within the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Pictured below, the logo is very clear to consumers that the download is 100% MP3.
Wendy Snowdon, Head of PlayDigital, comments: "It makes sense for customers to buy MP3. Not only can they use the MP3 format on any music device but it's often cheaper to buy this universally-compatible music than it is to buy restricted music from non-MP3 retailers. It’s an easy choice."
may be is a masochist. ;-)
In an ideal world, DRM would serve us as well as industry.
The very definition of the word "limited" means that if I have any restriction, then my use is limited.
In an ideal world, DRM would serve us as well as industry.
Thanks for making the assumption that those of us who rally against DRM are thieves.
I refuse to purchase music online until it is offered in lossless DRM-free format. Until then, its a waste of money paying for an inferior quality song at the same price as the physical cd.
The labels are DRM NOT Apple. Why do you think they have iTunes Plus (DRM free)? Jobs has stated that they'd rather not have DRM but the labels won't allow it.
So true, I thought it was the one to the right of the article, but reading it in full it was the bottom one that is pretty damn ugly.
Its like they didn't want to spend a tiny bit of money to get someone to get something made.
The file extension is lower case, and isnt everything lower case these days. UPPERCASE is so sharp and ugly.
but i suppose thats the point? i guess its clear that way.. but yeah, dunno..
+1. MP3 is essentially a free standard. Everyone uses it, it gets the job done, and no single entity really owns the rights to MP3 encoding, despite what Thomson and Fraunhofer would like you to believe.
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