People were scared to upgrade to XP back then. Dang.
http://forums.winamp.com/archive/index.php/t-46966.html
Did Microsoft really limit MP3 with a WMA agenda?!
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- KVRAF
- 8141 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
Yeah, these things cycle round and round and... 
Though in the MP3 case above, that was them trying to push people towards WMA format by only allowing you to rip MP3s at 128kbps. I've never heard that they actually made MP3s sound worse on playback but a good conspiracy theory maybe...
Didn't last long though, just pushed people away from WMP which they didn't want so included higher quality ripping soon after.
Though in the MP3 case above, that was them trying to push people towards WMA format by only allowing you to rip MP3s at 128kbps. I've never heard that they actually made MP3s sound worse on playback but a good conspiracy theory maybe...
Didn't last long though, just pushed people away from WMP which they didn't want so included higher quality ripping soon after.-
- KVRAF
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
Back in those days one had to decide if one should go with mp3 or Real Audio 
Anybody still got *.ram files on their HDD ?
Anybody still got *.ram files on their HDD ?