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To leave Commie, hyper to
http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html
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An interview with Ogg Vorbis developers:
http://www.binaryfreedom.com/content.php?content_id=26
Excertps...
About MP3:
" (...) mp3 is moving from "nominally most free" (not considering Vorbis) to
"as restrictive as most of the other choices". Not as bad as, say, Liquid
Audio, but still not good." (...)
"When Fraunhofer eventually asks for the broadcast/download royalty, and
they've stated that this year they will, that pretty much singlehandedly
kills net music, which is already scrapping for survival, unless there's a
free alternative- and there is."
About the sound quality:
"We sound better than WMA on Microsoft's own handpicked WMA demo samples. A
xylophone? C'mon guys! A xylophone isn't hard! Even if you play it fast!"
About the goal of Ogg Vorbis project:
"In a way, the end goal of the Xiph.org projects is to make multimedia
technology become an everyday thing, instead of something from which many
news articles are made. No one writes articles about HTTP, and rarely about
HTML. Hopefully in a few years, internet multimedia will just work."
---> Jarmo Lundgren, multimediatsaari
Helsingin Sanomat, Verkkoliite
p. 09-1227554 / 040-5345868
"Less is moo." - The Holy Mad Cow
