Ripstyles.com and Ripfactory Introduce Ripserver to North America

Ripstyles.com, a global media conversion company that specializes in converting CDs into mp3 or other digital files, is proud to be named the exclusive North American agent of Ripfactory's innovative new consumer device, Ripserver. Building on the foundation of Ripfactory's expert knowledge of CD ripping and media servers, Ripserver brings a first to the consumer market -- a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device with a fully integrated CD ripping engine. (CD ripping is another way of describing the conversion of a CD into mp3 or digital files.) This agreement extends the existing relationship between the two companies and further solidifies Ripstyles.com as a world-class media conversion company.

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Burn4Free CD and DVD 3.9

Burn4Free CD and DVD is a burning solution that's compatible with more than 3,000 DVD and CD burners. Burn data and audio from different file types (WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, FLAC, WavPack, and CDA). Burn and save ISO files, open and save your project to disk, verify content, print compilations, copy DVDs, and import your audio compilation from M3U and ASX playlists. The drives supported include dual-layer DVD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM (SCSI, IDE, EIDE, and USB 1.0 and 2.0). Version 3.9 improves audio CD creation.

CES: HD-AAC codec 'makes CDs obsolete'

Fraunhofer IIS, inventor of the ubiquitous MP3 music format, on Monday made a pitch to audio and computer makers to use its HD-AAC format. HD-AAC is a new digital music encoding format that Fraunhofer says is actually better than audio CDs. What's more, it's already iPod-compatible - well, sort of.

HD-AAC is based on the MPEG-4 SLS (Scalable to Lossless) standard, an extension to the MPEG-4 audio standard jointly developed by Fraunhofer and Infocomm Research. The encoding process HD-AAC preserves every bit of information in the uncompressed original music track, providing lossless compression of 24-bit music content. That's compared to the 16-bit, 44.1 kHz quality found on CDs - hence, Fraunhofer's "better than CD" claim.

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