luc wrote:
Le jeudi 07 septembre 2006 à 11:26 -0700, James Richard Tyrer a écrit
:
Lourens Veen wrote:
I don't think anyone but Apple could sell a music player without
mp3 support actually.
Currently true. But, with Apple having a large share of the player
market, AAC is still significant competition to MP3. The question
is will people buy non-iPod players that only support MP3 since it
is now considered to be an obsolete standard by the MPEG. MP3 will
not decline till other newer systems have significant market
penetration. But, this does not mean that there isn't significant
competition to MP3 currently.
Not exactly, because the iPod plays as well the MP3 file format. It
would be more exact to say that Apple has locked the "usage" of the
AAC file format (understand that a non-iPod AAC player can't read the
AAC files from iTunes Store) but don't compete against the MP3 file
format.
You are confusing the Apple iTunes DRM with the AAC codec. Free and
commercial software that uses AAC is available as well as licenses to
use AAC. If, in fact, it is not possible to play iTunes files on other
systems, it is not due to the AAC codec.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7150747782.html
The new RealPlayer supports AAC:
http://www.real.com/linux/
--
JRT
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