Frank Barknecht
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:57:12 -0800
Hallo, Sal Randolph hat gesagt: // Sal Randolph wrote: > HOW TO ENTER: Please read the guidelines and faq , and then use the entry > form at http://www.opsound.org
_From the guidelines: 3. It is strongly recommended that sound files be offered in mp3 format (simply for the pragmatic reason of wide compatibility). You are more than welcome to provide alternative format options for each file, including the open source ogg vorbis format, uncompressed aiffs, wavs, etc. I think it is a least a bit strange to "strongly recommend" a patented, anti open source format for this purpose. I know the "pragmatic reasons" from personal experience (i.e. friends asking "how do I play your ogg-track?"), but from the misson, that opensound.org seems to be on, I'd expect a strong recommendation of ogg over mp3, and only use mp3 as a (bad) alternative, when there already is an ogg. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__