Tim Hanson <tbhanson at gmx.de> wrote...
> > I'd be interested in trying to make MP3s or some other convenient
> > format I could share with friends via the web.

Craig Latta <Craig.Latta at netjam.org> replied...
>	I recommend Ogg Vorbis (vorbis.com), a "completely open, patent-free,
>professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the
>benefits of Open Source." I think it sounds great, and far preferable to
>MP3 technically for several reasons (space, quality, scaling). Software
>for it abounds.

I second the motion.

As soon as I understood all the legal issues surrounding MP3, I wanted to do an open alternative (hey, can't be *that* hard, right? ;-).  Ogg Vorbis (see, eg, http://www.vorbislinks.com/) seems to be exactly this kind of movement and I am strongly in support of it.  Squeak could be a neat synergy for them, and it would be a valueable tool for Squeak.

	- Dan

[I apologize for the possibly redundant distribution to squeak-dev, but I think several people who aren't on SqueakAudio might want to know/think about this].