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Supertracks aims to change your listening habits  Summary: The
start-up promises new technology that lets you transfer music
directly to your hard drive--improving quality and reducing the
costs of Internet broadcasting.  Supertracks, a start-up forced
to give up its first digital music initiative, is proposing a
way to slash the costs of Internet broadcasting.  The Portland,
Ore., company Tuesday will announce a technology that transfers
a large selection of music to computer users' hard drives,
allowing them to listen to it later in the order arranged by a
radio station or other programmers. Supertracks' system includes
software that prevents users from changing that order or sharing
song files with others, as users do on Napster Inc. or other
music-download services.  Most radio stations or other Internet
broadcasters use a technique called streaming, in which songs
are transmitted to users at the moment they are played. No copy
of the music is ke