[Golden Legacy]

This is truly one of the most ground-breaking technologies for the music industry. A proposed new digital music format, MT9, will have channels dedicated for each individual aspect of a song - there is a "voice channel", a "drum channel", a "guitar channel", and so forth including chorus, bass, and piano.

The exciting thing about this is that you would be able to use the audio equalizer to adjust the channels however you want - for example, you could feasibly turn off the voice channel, and you would be left with the rest of the song to karaoke to! Or, if you're a drummer and want to hear only the drums at work, you could turn off the guitar, voice, piano, etc. channels and just be left with the drums to hear.

Definitely very promising.


Source: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/natio.../133_24597.html

[Toasty]

Awesome. Now I'll be able to learn all those freakishly awesome drum parts on some freakishly awesome songs. :o

[Max]

The thing is, MP3 didn't become the dominant consumer format because it was a technically superior or featureful format. It became popular because it had amazing compression ratios in an age of dial-up broadband, where large files were a major inconvenience. Ogg Vorbis, what should arguably have become the successor to MP3 over the last several years, has failed to take off, which I think just goes to show the incredible inertia MP3 has built up.

[Toasty]

Yeah, but as far as I know, OG doesn't have each insturment on seperate tracks.

Of course, I'm not sure that there'll be enough people who will care enough for this to be viable. I mean, there obviously has to be enough people who will use it for it to become a standard.

Most people just want to listen to music.