For Andy Fliss, 38, marketing director for Micro Advantage, a provider of audio-visual and computer accessories in Manhattan, a Dallas business trip in March turned nightmarish when he felt chest pains while walking alone to his car.
It now sees itself as a provider of online audio, period.
The online retailer Amazon.com Inc. will buy 5percentt of Audible Inc., a provider of spoken-audio services for download or playback on computers or mobile devices, the companies said yesterday.
And Real Networks, a major provider of audio and video programming and longtime partner of AOL, is trying to sell cable and telephone companies the ability to incorporate its online programming into their own high-speed services, helping them keep up with AOL's features.
This week, music producer Steve Albini weighed in, poking holes in Tidal's proposed selling point as a provider of high-quality audio streams, saying: "If you want your music to play at the push of a button, convenience is going to trump sound quality 100% of the time".
Albini poked holes in Tidal's proposed selling point as a provider of high-quality audio streams, saying: "If you want your music to play at the push of a button, convenience is going to trump sound quality 100% of the time".
Audible is the leading provider of audio books in digital form, with a library of 80,000 titles.
Mr. Levin, a former car dealer who lives in Eatontown, N.J., will be distributing the audio files through Autodata, a provider of research.
LOUDEYE TECHNOLOGIES INC., Seattle, which makes software to broadcast audio and video on the Internet, agreed to buy closely held VidiPax Inc., New York, a provider of media-restoration services.
