BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JUNE 5, 2000 ISSUE
BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE Getting into the Rhythm MUSIC SITES & COMMENT www.mp3.com Largest collection of free legal music; good songs and bad from artists known and unknown. Classical music files have poor fidelity. www.sonicnet.com Easy-to-use site; cool function lets you create your own station playing preferred types of music. www.real.com Convenient entry point to MP3 world, but this general-purpose site, primarily for videos, has limited music choices. FILE EXCHANGES www.napster.com Most popular file-exchange site is being sued by music industry. When downloading, you may be breaking the law. www.scour.com More versatile (can search for videos and still images) and easier to use than Napster. Can also find MP3s on commercial sites. Backed by Michael Ovitz. www.gnutella.wego.com Renegade software links you into a vast, amorphous file-sharing network with no corporate server. Much of its music is pirated. Security is nil. DOWNLOADABLE PLAYERS REAL PLAYER, www.real.com Most popular player, with widest choice of music and video clips. Handles both Real Audio (ram) and MP3 formats. WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, www.windowsmedia.com Microsoft's entry includes indexing and filing but also security checkpoint to foil piracy. So it hasn't caught on like Real Player and has fewer network participants. WINAMP, www.winamp.com An AOL site, this has highest audio-playback quality; ''skin'' is easy to customize. LIQUID AUDIO, www.liquidaudio.com An also-ran in online music, with far fewer music files available. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					RELATED ITEMS Ultimate Jukebox: The ABC's of MP3 TABLE: Getting into the Rhythm The Best Pocket Players TABLE: Portable Music Devices INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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