Xing, HyCD to Collaborate on MP3 and CD Recording Software.HyCD Inc and Xing Technology Xing Technology was founded in Arroyo Grande, California in 1989 by former networking executive Howard Gordon on the basis of a simple (i.e. slow) JPEG decoding library that he had developed. Corp have reaffirmed their faith in MP3, the people's audio compression Encoding digital audio data to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. Audio compression typically uses lossy methods, which eliminate bits that are not restored at the other end. ADPCM and MP3 are examples of audio compression methods. See audio codec and data compression. format, despite the dark forces marshaled by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, www.riaa.com) A membership association of music recording companies. Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system. ) to crush the nascent nascent /nas·cent/ (nas´ent) (na´sent) 1. being born; just coming into existence. 2. just liberated from a chemical combination, and hence more reactive because uncombined. industry. By the end of March, HyCD and Xing hope to release a product that combines Xing's Encoder A hardware device or software that assigns a code to represent data. See encode. 1. (algorithm, hardware) encoder - Any program, circuit or algorithm which encodes. Example usages: "MPEG encoder", "NTSC encoder", "RealAudio encoder". 2. with HyCD's Play & Record CD software. The result, they say, should be the fastest, easiest and best MP3 recording package on the market. And it is RIAA, not the MP3 vendors, that should be worried, executives say. "Unless the music industry reacts faster to the rate of change the MP3 industry is going through, they will find themselves on the short end of a strong emerging new market," warned Paul Ling, president and chief executive of HyCD. "HyCD has already lined up other MP3 deals that will improve the quality of recorded MP3 audio and also give MP3 internet distributors more power and flexibility to cut MP3 audio to a customer CD." As long as MP3 lacks built-in copyright protection mechanisms, that's exactly the situation the recording industry wants to avoid. |
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