The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

5 August 2007

Once again I'm behind the times

I was fiddling around with my MP3 Walkman, contemplating the possibility of avoiding Sony's cumbersome SonicStage interface, when I noticed that the folder on the machine which actually contains all the music files is called OMGAUDIO.

Lame (not to be confused with LAME) as it was, I giggled a bit, and then went looking to see if these letters were supposed to stand for something and/or if Sony had synthesized a backronym. No suggestions of such, but I did happen upon these guys, who have produced what appears to be some pretty nifty stuff — probably with no help from Sony.

Posted at 12:10 PM to Fileophile


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