[LAU] Pipe not working - or is it lame or oggdec

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com> wrote:

> The band will quite easily be over the $100,000 revenue while they are just
> earning pocket money as actual income for themselves. That $2000 would be
> much more usefully spent paying an engineer to help get a recording done
> than paying for the right to have mp3s on their laptop to play (or send) to
> someone who may be interested in their work.

the band simply contracts with a third party, e.g. their friend doris,
who charges $1.50 to convert PCM data into MP3 data, up to 1 hour's
worth. doris makes $65 a year from this work, and her total annual
income is about $50k. problem solved.

i too prefer to use unencumbered formats, which is partly why ardour
still does not do mp3 export or import. but lets be realistic about
how this can work, and also about the fact that the overwhelming
majority of the world's current portable digital music players do not
support unencumbered formats.