=== The original message was multipart MIME === === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === Howdy all, I am not sure if this was mentioned when the discussion was = going on about a computer doing the atrac compression, but it seems to = me that there already is an encoder out there. Sony has one with thier = memory stick thingies. All the discussion about if a computer could = encode atrac (even though it is just atrac 3) is a moot point. what = should be asked is someone that has one of these devices, how quickly = does it take to encode a song? anyway if someone has one of these = things i would be interested in knowing more specifics about it. That = would also give us more info on how fast a transfer would be if sony = ever decided to put a usb port on a md player to shoot music over to it. === MIME part removed : text/html; === ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]