The new world of music file sharing

Tired of only being able to get 500 songs on your Ipod Nano?  Apparently so were the researchers at the University of Rochester who have come up with a way to reproduce music into a computer file that’s 1,000 times smaller than a comparable high-quality MP3 file.

Thanks to Alan Cross, program director at Corus radio station CFNY, the math is now evident - a 160 GB Ipod can now carry over 40 million songs.  It would take you over 450 years to listen to all songs before hearing a repeat!

Its really quite staggering when you think about it - the MP3 file has changed forever how people will share music files across the Internet.  Imagine what will happen when the MPEG goes next?

Full article on Yahoo.