New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder
Jason Dufair
jase at dufair.org
Wed Aug 28 14:22:56 UTC 2002
So the question is - do we remove mp3 support from Squeak now or wait
for a letter from FhG/Thomson? Both options really suck, I hate to say.
Glad I'm only about 20 CDs into (the 4th round of) ripping and encoding
my entire 500+ CD collection. I'll be switching to Ogg Vorbis at this
point (which also sounds slightly better to my ears for the same bitrate).
Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
>This seems to be relevant for Squeak...
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>New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder
>http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/27/1626241.shtml?tid=155
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>Yet another reason for...
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>Ogg Vorbis
>http://www.vorbis.com/
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>Open Thank-You letter to Thomson Multimedia
>http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/openletter.html
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>Andreas
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Jason Dufair - jase at dufair.org
http://www.dufair.org/
"Our task must be to free ourselves...
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and the whole of nature and its beauty."
-- Albert Einstein
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