On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 07:03:04 -0800
dale ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Greetings:
>
> I am in a band (in the US) and would like to put some of our
> music up on the Web. One member of our group is a very
> committed geek and he is opposed to the use of mp3
> because he says it benefits Thomson/Fraunhofer and they
> are big bad meanies or something like that. However, I
But not as big as the RIAA or Microsoft... :-)
> have read that mp3 is actually open-source and the use of
> some codecs/encoders such as LAME do not require the
> payment of royalties. I can encode using lame_win32 with
I'm not aware that someone has to pay royalties for MP3 files. You may
have to pay if you sell en-/decoders (you have to pay for hardware based
ones, and for software based ones you may have to pay if you earn money
with them (but I'm unsure about the last part)), but this doesn't affect
you.
Have a look at mp3-tech.org, there you should find more information (at
least a link to Thomson).
> Goldwave, but am not allowed to distribute our material
> unless I can prove to the geek that it won�t enrich the
> aforementioned meanies.
I assume nobody will buy a hardware player just to listen to only your
music, so because you put your music online as a MP3 you don't change
much (just assume they already have paid royalties by purchasing a
hardware MP3 player for the music of someone else).
If they use free software decoders and burn your music on a CD, they pay
no royalties to Thomson.
[comment why ogg isn't suitable snipped]
Fact is: if you want to make it easy for people to listen to your music,
you have to use MP3. Every other format doesn't has the needed support
(there may be hardware devices which play WMA or ogg, but you have to
search for them).
Bye,
Alexander.
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Weird enough for government work.
http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net
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