"Rainer Deyke" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> Yea, this is pretty much the key. Even if nothing else, it's at least >> useful *because* it's popular. In other words, the same reason why any >> audio >> app realisticlly needs to support MP3 even though MP3 is probably the >> single >> worst lossy audio codec out there (an assertion which, by the way, I >> would >> love to be proven wrong about, just you know, so I don't pop a vein every >> time I think about "average joe" and music players...). > > mp3 is the worst lossy lossy audio compression codec precisely because > it is so popular that it managed to kill off all of its competitors > except those that have a strong advantage over mp3. You don't hear > about au files or mp2 files anymore. >
Good point. au was lossy?
