Music Downloaders Hit by Acronym Cacophony

Great headline, I have to say…a story on how proprietary formats and techno speak is confusing the digital music consumer… an alphabet soup of compression technologies, codecs and DRM.

Here’s the truth: “All the different formats roughly offer the same sound quality at the same file size,” said David Mallinson, a software consultant at RealNetworks.

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