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A New Zealand Man finds US military personal information on second hand digital MP3 / MP4 player, according to a New Zealand TV report.

The person at the center of this story Chris Ogle claims he discovered the US army information files when he went to download music from the internet to his MP3 player one afternoon.

The New Zealander says found the secret data regarding US military personnel on an Personal media player he bought from a second hand shop in Oklahoma, USA.

Chris Ogle, 29, said: “The more I look at it, the more I see and the less I think I should be looking.”

These secret data files include the telephone numbers and names of US armed forces personal, according to news reports by a New Zealand TV channel.

However, the Pentagon can relax a little, as according to one expert, the confidential documents in question, are unlikely to be a security concern, as they are dated from 2005, therefore are already 5 years out of date.

Still there will be some embarrassment in the US Army, as some files found included the warning that the release of this information is “prohibited by federal law”.

Along with the personal details of the US soldiers, including a list of their social security numbers, the digital files also recorded pregnant female troops, who will by now be female troop mothers, and apparent briefings of missions in Afghanistan.

A spokes person from the Center for Strategic Studies in New Zealand, said of course that while these records should not be circulating in the public domain. He thought it did not appear that it would have a negative affect on national security in the USA.

“This is just slack administrative procedures which are indeed a cause of embarrassment,” he said.

Mean wile Mr Ogle, from Whangarei, said he would hand over the digital files to the US government if required to do so.

However the US Embassy in New Zealand has declined to comment.

This is not the first time that such laps in security surrounding top secret US forces information stored digitally.

There was a very similar tale in Afghanistan in 2006 It was reported that US investigators found stolen flash USB drives that held confidential US military information from local shops close to the US base there.

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The European Union commission is seeking a set limit for the maximum volume on all MP3 & MP4 players sold within the EU. This will apply to the popular iPod

These recommendations come after a shocking report released within the last months which warned that up to 10 million people within the EU risk permanent hearing loss as a result of listening to loud music for prolonged periods

Experts at the EU Commission would like the default maximum volume to be at 85 decibels. However users could override this set limit and turn the volume to a maximum limit of 100 decibels.

In January 2010, an eight week consultation of all EU standardization groups started on these proposals to limit volume. The commission hopes that a final agreement could be reached within 12 weeks

Worrying results were brought to light at testing facilities where some MP3 players were examined by researchers. A number of of the players had a maximum volume level of 120 decibels, that is equal to a plane taking off. This is the issue that the EU is hoping to deal with, as at the moment no set safety default volume level applies.

However personal media player manufacturers are required to publish information about risks in their player instruction manuals. For all practical purposes though, users do not reads these, and it doesn’t prevent the consumer from increasing the volume to maximum. What’s more,a study has shown that hearing loss amongst younger people is increasing as a result of the use of listing to loud music on earphones.

MP3 players are perceived as being more dangerous than CD players or the ‘Walkman’ because they can store many hours of music and have a long battery life, which allows users to listen to them continuously for long periods without a break. Often while driving when the volume is very high to drown out outside noise. Over time the resulting injury to hearing can be similar that seen in previous years caused by industrial noise.

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There’s a new audio file format called MusicDNA which will give music companies and distributors a generous 32GB of information to hold, such as album cover art, song lyrics, and even the latest blog posts and concert news, combined with the sound file.

If enough big names come on board, it’s just possible there could be a challenge to the mighty MP3, giving users a more album-like experience albeit in digital form, but more importantly, it will allow artists and record companies a license to increase their prices per download.

The proposed format was launched by Bach Technology on Sunday at MIDEM a music-industry conference in Cannes, France. Unlike the current rivals to the MP3, Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), as two examples, MusicDNA is not actually a new music technology, and luckily doesn’t need new audio codecs, which is a big plus. Rather, as Stefan Kohlmeyer, CEO of Batch, the voice behind MusicDNA in an interview, MusicDNA is an add-on to existing audio formats.

So what does MusicDNA actually do? Well, it’s cleaver stuff. MusicDNA analyzes the sound file itself for certain characteristics in 13 categories for example mood and tempo. This data is then encoded as XML and is carried with the file. Content owners can also include data, for example cover art and lyrics, to be included with the file.

What’s more, this data can also be updated when the user is connects to the internet–for example, concert listings could be updated as soon as they’re announced, complete with links to buy tickets. Bach is hoping to generate money by licensing the MusicDNA format out to software and hardware producers.

There is an advantage that Bach has, as MusicDNA is not a new audio technology, MusicDNA files should work with existing hardware and software. So MusicDNA potentially could work on MP3 / MP4 players if the manufactures picked it up. The player will be able to read the audio file, and disregard all the other stuff. Because of this, MusicDNA could escape a similar fate of other music file formats such as Sony’s ATRAC or even Windows Media Audio. We will wait and see.

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