On Sep 9 11:25, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Sep 8 16:09, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > > See the thread about Volker's libmad ITP. This contains MP3 related code. > > I'm a bit more relaxed in this case since it just reads and generates > > these tags, however, is this tag handling patent/IP free as far as > > reading/writing MP3s is concerned? > > MP3 files are basicly just MPEG1 streams with no video. The MPEG stream is > build from frames which contain either video chunks, audio chunks and extra > data like tagging information. So basicly ID3 is independent from the MP3 > coding process which affects only the data in the audio frames. > > On www.id3.org I can find no information that tagging audiofiles has any > license or patent issues. http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html > lists only patents which appear (judging from the summary) to affect only > compression, digital encoding and storing the digital signals in the MP3 > stream and channels. > > Nevertheless the easytag source contains mpg123 which is most likely used > to determine the internals of the MP3 data and the playtime but uses an > external audioplayer (xmms) to play the file. > > Let's see what other people do: > > Opensuse 10 has removed libmad from the download but id3lib stayed. They don't > have easytag as package. > Debian has id3lib and easytag packages.
...and I just read that OpenSuse 10.0 will have MP3 support by default again. I'm seriously irritated. I have to look into how to proceed. Give me a couple of days. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.
