Net Sounds

August, 1999

This is the scenario the labels hate. First you install a free MP3 (MPEG 1 Layer 3, if you really want to know) ripper, encoder and player. Then you pop the new Jamiroquai CD, Synkronized, into your CD-ROM player, copy a tune to your hard drive and e-mail it to your friend in the next cubicle. She uses a CDR unit to burn it onto a CD. Or she shoots it through a short cable into a Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300 (we call it the pimp 300) and walks on down the hall. The Walkman-like Rio PMP300 lets...