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Beatnik Squeezes Music Into Ten Times Less Space

May 29, 2007, 1:25 PM by (staff)

Beatnik, the technology company founded by Thomas Dolby, today announced a new audio format for mobile devices. The format can reduce the size of a song up to ten times more than MP3 can by taking parts of the song that are used more than once and only including one copy in the file - calling up that musical phrase where it is needed after that. Beatnik is proposing that including support for this musical format in future phones would allow carriers to offer over the air (OTA) track downloads to users of entry level or 2G phones, and not just 3G subscribers. Beatnik has developed a music player for handsets in addition to the file format, so that carriers could quickly roll out support for it. They expect to announce carriers and manufacturers who will launch the format in about a month.

more info at Wireless Week »

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I'm suprised no one else mentioned this, but...	muchdrama	May 29, 2007, 5:26 PM
Re: I'm suprised no one else mentioned this, but... by nuckingfuts May 29, 2007, 5:28 PM Re: I'm suprised no one else mentioned this, but... by muchdrama May 30, 2007, 11:39 PM Re: I'm suprised no one else mentioned this, but... by katrina Jun 4, 2007, 12:22 PM Re: I'm suprised no one else mentioned this, but... by nuckingfuts May 31, 2007, 11:12 AM Re: I'm suprised no one else mentioned this, but... by SiestaRandy May 31, 2007, 11:52 AM Re: I'm suprised no one else mentioned this, but... by muchdrama Jun 1, 2007, 5:55 PM Re: I'm suprised no one else mentioned this, but... by muchdrama Jun 1, 2007, 5:56 PM
This was released 10 years ago...kinda.	phaythe	May 31, 2007, 5:43 PM
vs MOD by katrina Jun 4, 2007, 12:21 PM
sounds like the old MOD format	Snerdley	May 30, 2007, 11:39 AM
Re: sounds like the old MOD format by EClay777 May 30, 2007, 12:12 PM Re: sounds like the old MOD format by phaythe May 31, 2007, 5:23 PM Re: sounds like the old MOD format by katrina Jun 4, 2007, 12:15 PM
Wording	josiah	May 30, 2007, 4:38 AM
Re: Wording by pennyless10 May 30, 2007, 11:47 AM Re: Wording by lang May 30, 2007, 7:32 PM
Quality?	Omagus	May 29, 2007, 1:33 PM
Re: Quality? by scbysnx May 29, 2007, 1:35 PM Re: Quality? by coziamnumber1 May 29, 2007, 1:46 PM Re: Quality? by nuckingfuts May 29, 2007, 2:43 PM Re: Quality? by Dre May 29, 2007, 2:57 PM (more replies...) Re: Quality? by pennyless10 May 29, 2007, 6:14 PM
Justin Timberlake "Sexy Back" now 10kB?	maokh	May 29, 2007, 6:25 PM
riddle me this?	pennyless10	May 29, 2007, 4:24 PM

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