{"id":2309,"date":"2007-04-04T07:46:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2007-04-04T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T13:46:16","slug":"emi-itunes-deal-could-strike-a-blow-to-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/emi-itunes-deal-could-strike-a-blow-to-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"EMI &#8211; iTunes deal could strike a blow to Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/music\/news\/2007\/04\/emihardware_0403\">Wired Magazine<\/A> reports that the recent announcement by EMI to remove digital copy protection from it&#8217;s music files could be a huge blow to Microsoft and their WMA file format.<br \/>\nBy releasing songs encoded at 256 Kbps on iTunes EMI gives preference to Apple&#8217;s AAC file format (a supe&#8217;d up version of the Mp3 format).<br \/>\nEMI&#8217;s tracks will be available at the regular 128 Kbps for the standard $1 on iTunes and the new 256 Kbps songs without digital copy protection will be available for $1.30.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t realize this but apparently most Mp3 players can play AAC files with a simple firmware update.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s not necessarily the case for WMA files.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By providing DRM-free downloads, we aim to address the lack of interoperability which is frustrating for many music fans,&#8221; said EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli in the press release.<br \/>\nApple&#8217;s iTunes Store is the first to receive the new premium downloads, which will be priced at $1.30. Apple will continue to offer DRM-shackled tunes from EMI at the lower rate of 128 Kbps for the usual price of $1. EMI stressed that DRM would remain on music bought under monthly flat-fee-based services such as Rhapsody, Napster and Yahoo Music Unlimited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It could get interesting this year as 2007 may be the year music lovers see copy protection as a thing of the past. Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired Magazine reports that the recent announcement by EMI to remove digital copy protection from it&#8217;s music files could be a huge blow to Microsoft and their WMA file format. By releasing songs encoded at 256 Kbps on iTunes EMI gives preference to Apple&#8217;s AAC file format (a supe&#8217;d up version of the Mp3 format). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/emi-itunes-deal-could-strike-a-blow-to-microsoft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EMI &#8211; iTunes deal could strike a blow to Microsoft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-techno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Bf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}