CMX (file format)

CMX (aka "Connected Media Experience") is a file format in development by the Connected Media Experience, Inc., a Standard-Setting Organization formed to promote a new technical standard for enhanced digital media packages, including media, technology and e-commerce companies and aiming to enable EXCITING new ways for consumers to experience music, video and more.

CMX's premise is similar to that of Apple's iTunes LP (aka "Cocktail") format, with data such as audio, lyrics, album art and the like being contained in a single file. According to a representative of the labels launching the CMX format it: "will be a file that you click on, it opens and it would have a totally brand-new look, with a launch page and all the different options. When you click on it you’re not just going to get the ten tracks, you’re going to get the artwork, the video and mobile products.”

The first CMX albums, originally expected to be released in November 2009 (then rescheduled for the second quarter of 2010), are said to be an initial, small scale, trial run carried out to see if consumers respond well to the CMX format.

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