true, But although I didn't do any actual testing myself, I read that conversion mp3-->ogg sometimes doesn't sound good
y On 6/5/09, Pieter Colpaert <freep...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's a bad idea in general to discuss the topic. MP3's are non > free and should not be used by any openmoko-user. As myself I don't got > any mp3 on my computer, I only use ogg. The only disadvantage of ogg is: > you won't be able to share it with lots of friends, due they probably > use mp3. But as a matter of fact, sharing mp3's with friends is not > concidered very legal. So... There is no problem not using any mp3's on > the openmoko. The solution for people wanting to use openmoko as there > music device: > > let's create a "music uploader" for OM2009 & SHR (on your pc: so should > have a version for linux as well as for mac and wyndaws): > The main screen should give us a selector list of all songs on your pc, > no matter if they're mp3/ogg/wav/etc when uploaded (through scp, that's > easy I guess) they get automatically converted to ogg, which is a quite > good standard to use on the openmoko. So no problems selling openmoko > anymore huh? > > Pieter > > On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 15:16 +0200, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote: >> pattens as are now a days is a real PITA, no matter if you don't have >> the libraries installed in the device,if you are cached by those >> pirate... sorry pattens agencies in customs they just have to say to >> the court the device is suitable to play mp3 and you don't have >> license, and your parcel will be retained for months/years, no matter >> the court final decision, you as reseller are fucked because you have >> payed for a material you cannot touch. So orl you arrive an agreement >> with the agency (+money,-less time) or wait for the lottery of the >> court and cross your fingers to have a judge a little bit more techy >> than the average, because if not, your parcel will be returned by >> default, and if the judge has a bad day you surely will pay a penalty. >> >> Once was said OM was in sue trying to resolve this but I have no more >> info on that for a long time. >> >> 2009/6/5 Al Johnson <openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk>: >> > On Friday 05 June 2009, Christoph Pulster wrote: >> >> > It's more than welcome to see Openmoko Inc. is still very much in >> >> > support of the Freerunner/GTA02 and will provide the community with >> >> > support in areas like the hosting infrastructure as well as the legal >> >> > side (trademarks). >> >> >> >> Please remember the patent infridgements concerning MP3 >> >> (www.sisvel.it). >> >> Openmoko Inc. did not solve this issue until today. >> >> As a result, all sales inside EU are patent infridgments, all reseller >> >> inside EU community have to live with the fact, that local customs >> >> seize >> >> their Freerunner order anytime. >> > >> > Openmoko removed the mp3 codecs from the images they supply, and from >> > their >> > repositories, causing frustration for many. I don't know what image they >> > now >> > ship with, but would be surprised if they haven't removed the mp3 codecs >> > from >> > that too. If it doesn't contain the codec it can't infringe the patent. >> > What >> > more do you expect them to do? >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Openmoko community mailing list >> > community@lists.openmoko.org >> > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community