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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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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