Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard

stivi writes "BusinessWeek has up an article about a war: a standards war in the online music business. Apple's recent deal with EMI to sell DRM-free songs from the publisher's catalog on iTunes may clinch the iPod's AAC format as the industry standard. The article talks about possible reasons why AAC might marginalize WMA, as well as deals with some of the implications of drm-free aac-standardized industry. 'Online music stores, like Napster, Yahoo Music, URGE, and all the others that sell WMA songs will be forced to consider jumping into the DRM-free AAC camp, and thus become iPod compatible, and in so doing become competitors of iTunes. Apple will be fine with this, because in its range of priorities, anything that sells more iPods can only be a good thing. With time, practically all music stores will be selling iPod-compatible songs. This will be considered a Richter 10 event at Microsoft.'"

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[LiquidCoooled]

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[User 956]

Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard

So selling DRM-free AAC files will dethrone DRM-free MP3 files as the industry standard?

How, exactly?

Re:Vorbis? FLAC?

[mattkime]

>>the #1 DAP on the market?

Whats a DAP? Is it like an iPod?

Re:Vorbis? FLAC?

[drachenstern]

DAP is a great sealant. In fact, many plumbers and others in the small repair business swear by it. I'd say it's probably number 1 amongst those who know of it. Here's two URLs for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAP [wikipedia.org]

http://www.dap.com/ [dap.com]

As a matter of fact, Tim Allen's standup routine (amongst others, I'm sure) references a great bit about DAP and filling the crack revealed when a plumber bends over, but I'll omit that here.

cheers

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unless...

[sammy baby]

Unless, of course, Microsoft also offers DRM free WMA files in its Zune Marketplace.

But of course, that could never happen [com.com], right?

Re:MP3

[Moofie]

You better tell my iPod, because it's got about 7000 MP3 tracks, and they all work just fine.

What flavor of MP3 are they? Don't know, don't really care. They work. There is no problem. I use iTunes to rip to 192kbit VBR. Some people might be able to tell the difference between that and CD, but that's OK, because I don't let them listen to my music.

Sure.

[noSignal]

In other news: If you just buy a damn CD you can have your audio in whatever the hell format you want. Is AAC really going to replace a real recording or pcm? Oh wait, this is Slashdot; I mean "wooh! yeah apple! yeehaw!"