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* "Rick Pali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 25 Nov 1999
| Is the MP3 format proprietary or is it available for anyone to use without
| charge?
MP3 is not a format, per se. "MP3" is actually MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio. That
is, it is one of the audio compresion schemes supported by the MPEG-1
standard. And yes, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 are open standards (MPEG-2 is the
version used in DVD-Video, though DVD-Video uses other, vastly superior
audio storage).
On the other hand, ATRAC is proprietary.
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