On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Hamish Moffatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25/05/15 01:58, Paul Davis wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Vojtěch Meluzín < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> From what I have read AAC is trademarked by Apple even for decoding... >> Also there's M4A and other weird formats... I have no idea why we cannot >> stick with simple MP3 for lossy >> > > mp3 is still subject to patent restrictions. > > > And AAC isn't? > I'm not an advocate for mp3 *or* AAC. I was noting why we (some of us) cannot stick with "simple mp3". Personally, I am very sad that Xiph failed to realize the importance of an integer version of Vorbis; by the time they got it done, that ship had sailed. Certainly all the devices I choose to own can handle Vorbis and I believe that double blind testing shows it to be superior to other lossy compression techniques. But I'm under no illusions that it represents a deeply viable format, especially given that neither MS nor Apple ship decoders for it by default.
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