Sony Rumored To Allow AAC Format Compatibility

Sony is rumored to make its music management software compatible with Apple Computer’s AAC audio file format. For Sony, who once dominated the portable music market segment, this is a significant change in philosophy and the latest evidence that Apple is completely kicking butt in digital music. For Sony, who championed their own music file compression format, ATRAC, and refused to make their digital music players compatible...

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WolframTones Makes Beautiful Math

WolframTones is a website where you can compose ringtones based on simple programs from Stephen Wolfram’s computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world and WolframTones then turns it into a musical composition. All the music is completely original and generated based on Wolfram’s mathematical formula. Sometimes it sounds...

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