[wellylug] Buying Microsoft Products....

[Don Jones]

> Correct. They stopped paying for the MP3 license owned by Fraunhofer
> Institut. In reality, one can assume it's a move to push their own 100%
> controlled proprietary format.

Check out the The Ogg Vorbis CODEC project

http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html

Ogg Vorbis is a fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for high quality (44.1-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same class as audio representations including MPEG-1 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (AAC and TwinVQ), and PAC.

The quality is great and the control of your music stays with you (wow what a concept).

The ability to encode in ogg format will be avalible on your favorite distro and can be played under windows with winamp etc plugins for those of you still clinging to the windows legacy OS ;)

Don

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