> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> About time that FhG showed that knew more about the standard than
> anyone else. Wonder if they'll update their (quite awful) unix command
line
> tools. (for US$199 for mp3enc, you'd wanted to be getting something pretty
> swish)
It looks to me like they're going to reduce prices across the board. Full
versions of their codec (MP3Enc, Producer Pro, "Professional" ACM codec)
were previously available at around the $200 mark. With Nero, Cakewalk, Cool
Edit, Musicmatch, probably others, shipping full versions of the new codec
for between $15 and $100, I doubt they'll be charging much more than $50 for
a new MP3Enc.
With Xing out of the way and the MP3 market effectively sewn up, they will
presumably start to concentrate on consumer implementations of AAC. I don't
know of a competing AAC implementation that even comes close to FhG's
version. The AAC licensing fees are pretty exhorbitant, though, so maybe
it's not worth it for people like Xing to even make an attempt...
-- Mat.
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