pablolie said the following on 02/20/2006 05:12 PM: >>That aside, why not choose an open source format, i.e. flac? > > > Without a doubt, when (it's not even an "if") I go lossless I'd have a > very strong preference for FLAC. But the fact it's open doesn't mean > that the big guys with vested interest can't hijack it in the end if it > suits their purpose - it's happened before in the open source community. > :-(
Ah, but the point is that it's open source (specifically, Xiph and GPL [1]) so the licence to use a partuclar version cannot be taken away. You'll always have whatever version of flac you use to create your archive. [1] http://flac.sourceforge.net/license.html R. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
