Hello Cedric! It does work with a file inbetween and I have more than enough diskspace to accomodate quite a handsome CD collection. :-) Warm regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

Hello Cedric1 No piracy involved, but I like to store my own music as ogg, which isn't nice for the MP3-player. :-) Well I did this and the second one failed, with the "couldn't close soundfile" message. Any idea, what that might mean? Kindly yours JUlien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

Hello Cedric! Aehm? I am doing this to MY OWN music. And I feel no need to delete anything, it's mine! Granted I might just re-ripthe CD, but my drive isn't the best, so no need to subject the CDs to this, which really is hell. :-) I may - for my pleasure - do with the music, what I like. Even mutilate it to MP3. Although it's no bad music, so it didn't really deserve it. :-) (Sorry, this does look like ranting, doesn't it? :-) ) Still, it works now. Strange thing. I wonder why this is? Which of the components has changed in that way? As long as it works. THANKS! Warmly yours Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

On 02/05/11 22:53, Gwenhwyfaer wrote: I think the point is not who owns the content, but who owns the mp3 format - have you paid them for the right to encode into 'their' mp3? Some claim you must, as they claim to own patents on parts of the process of such encoding. Some jurisdictions support this claim, others don't. Simon

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Worth <pipemanmusic(a)gmail.com> wrote: do you have a reference/citation for this?

On 03/05/11 23:57, Daniel Worth wrote: Thanks for that info, I seem to recall there was once a low cost lifetime licence sold for personal encoding use, I guess they changed that some time ago or my recollections are mistaken. Looking at the exception quoted perhaps anyone who uses audio professionally, say any musician, should avoid using the format to share or keep audio in any way, since crossing the line out of 'private' by "generating revenue or other consideration of any kind" is very easy - perhaps from an advertisement on your website which has an mp3 on it, or playing your mp3 collection from your laptop in the process of promoting your services as a paid musician. The annual revenue (note this is not profit, but gross revenue) exception for small 'entities' would be very easily breached during a reasonable year for a band in many countries. Then you become a 'pirate' (as a previous poster said) even though one that is unlikely to be prosecuted if you don't stick your head up to far. I believe the whole idea that such patents are granted is wrong (and in many more important cases than this quite damaging), but they are considered valid in my country. In any case why encode your content into a format that has these issues when perfectly reasonable alternatives exist? Simon.

On 03/05/11 22:19, Daniel Worth wrote: So you are saying that they do claim they own it, and do demand payment, but they apparently won't bother to sue you for using it without paying if you don't make much money out of it? Do they actually give permission, or do they just say they will probably ignore 'small' offenders? Again it depends on where you are, and what you, and your local jurisdiction/electorate/regime, think about anyone being able to own an algorithm in the first place. There is much debate on this matter. Simon.