Lars Luthman wrote:
Couldn't someone in a country without software
patents code an MP3 write
module that could be distributed as a patch
That would never work; the libsndfile internals change often
enough to make this impossible.
or separate version of libsndfile?
Sure, anyone who wants to could do it.
Although the only reason I can think of for writing
MP3s is to export
files to old hardware audio players that don't support Vorbis.
Exactly. And anyone on this situation can just use the LAME encoder.
Erik
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