vincent meserette wrote: MP3 is an enormously problematic format due to patents. Officially, to dsitribute an mp3 encoder or decoder, one needs to buy a license: http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html which is ridiculously expensive. Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- `[Microsoft] are in the business of giving customers exactly what they ask for, which sounds like a nice idea until you realize that most Microsoft customers are idiots.' --- Eugene O'Neil on comp.os.linux.development.system