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On Tue, 8 May 2001, niko wrote:
>
> >"According to US newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the next version of
> >Microsoft's Windows operating system - called XP - has been explicitly
> >designed to wean people off MP3. WSJ report that users 'ripping' an MP3 file
> >from a CD in Microsoft's forthcoming XP operating system will be limited to
> >doing so at just 56 kilobits per second - less than half the 128 kbps
> >quality of the average MP3. At 56kbps, MP3s sound muffled and distorted.
> [etc.]
>
> Makes me wonder -- why the hell get XP in the first place? is there any
> good reason? Oh, it looks nice. Sure. :-)
>
> Still, I bet that won't make it to the final version. Microsoft are too
> greedy to bite their own tail that way...
and what about installing other operating system and doing it there? ;P
anyway, you can always install cygnus, compile lame (which is nowadays
completely free of fraunhofer code) and encode with that. or ogg
vorbis...
sakke
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
