Reuters UK has taken a look into the world of legal music downloads and the entourage of acronyms that consumers may want to familiarize themselves with, before choosing a provider or format. The article covers everything from Sony’s ATRAC to the AAC codec used in iTunes.

From the article:

“In the age of instantaneous Internet downloads, music fans have more to consider than just the name of the artist when they buy a recording.”

“They must also familiarise themselves with a new lingo of geek-speak — an alphabet soup of compression technologies, codecs and DRM — if they want to play a song at all.”

Read all about it, here.

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