Microsoft WMT on Rio players
The Rio players now only yet arranged for MP3 will also the truces in the Windows Media-size (WMT) can play. Advantage for the record companies: WMT offers copyrightbescherming.
The RioPort division of Diamond goes also software make with which musics of a CD omgezet can become in the WMT-size for use on the Rio. The Audio Manager, as is the software baptized, converteert also to MP3, without only protection of copyrights.
Microsoft will work together with Rio technologies to develop with which competitive music players, as the Nomad of Creative Labs, also use can make of the services of RioPort.
The Rio players of Diamond have been designed for the playing of MP3 sounds truce that downloaded can become by internet. The RIAA, belangenbehartiger of the five largest record companies in the United States, wanted to prohibit to let recently the Rio and such devices through the court. That is not succeeded. (See news of 17 June.)