Music industry plans new digital format...

FOUR OF THE WORLD'S biggest music companies are trying once again to steal Apple's thunder by introducing a new format for downloadable digital music.

Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI are all collaborating on CMX, a media bundling system that will deliver not only music tracks, but sleeve notes, photographs, videos and lyrics. Those of you old enough to remember vinyl LPs from the olden days will no doubt be getting all nostalgic for gatefold covers and information on the music you are listening to that doesn't require a magnifying glass to be of any use.

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People just don't want to buy entire albums these days. We now live in a world where consumers are no longer forced to buy 11 sub-standard filler tracks just to get their hands on the one song they actually like... you know... the one off the car ad on the telly that goes, deee doo doo da dee dum dum. Full story...

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