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"Nick J." wrote in
: Sven Franklyn Weil wrote: Muzak also delivers some of their formats in disk form. Don't know if they're standard CDs or MP-3 disks. But knowing Muzak it's probably MP-3 disks...there's a note on the disks that say something to the effect of "for use only on Muzak equipment." I saw a couple of them lying around on the counter of a Popeye's Fried Chicken store once. TSC in the UK provide 8-hour long CDs for use in shops and fast food counters, etc. They're in mono IMA ADPCM (4:1) format, and are played on a custom CD player. Muzak in the US provides similarly long CDs (which, as best as I've been able to determine, are *not* in MP3 format), also requiring a custom CD player. As recently as 1999-2000 or so Muzak was providing their proprietary CD's and players to retail outlets such as Spencer's (which is where I was familiar with the equipment--we had to put in that month's Muzak CD in, it'd play for around 6-8 hours, mostly dance and novelty "Weird Al" type stuff). I had always wondered, as had other employees, specifically what format the CDs were in (apparently employees had actually attempted to sneak them home to play, without success--the tracking was off, as I recall; never had access to a CD diagnostics util, and it'd probably have been impossible without one of the proprietary Muzak players anyways). I'm not even sure they were standard Red Book CD's at all, to be honest... I'd expect the Muzak systems were similar if not identical, and I'd be surprised if the Muzak "CD" systems weren't still in place in a lot of places where you couldn't have a ton of satellite systems up (for example, malls with many retail stores)... -Neko-chan :3 |
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