[linux-audio-dev] please help: enumerating library requirements

[Albert Graef]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>Couldn't the companies
>>making money off Linux get together and buy like
>>a general Linux MP3 codec license?
> 
> Yes, they could but why would they?

To make their customers happy? E.g., anyone who wants to use Linux but 
still owns a hardware mp3 player which doesn't support ogg vorbis.

In any case, it would really be a feat if libsndfile got support for 
reading/writing ogg vorbis and at least reading mp3. :)

Albert

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