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| So who owns the copyright
So the part I'm concerned about is who owns the mp3 patent and how aggressive will they be, for example any mp3 player who hasn't paid the licensing fees is going to be sued, which I suspect is most mp3 player vendors. Could we be forced to abandon the mp3 format because of this, which takes on the feel of an evil RIAA plot (almost too much so).
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1 edit | said by Link Logger  :So the part I'm concerned about is who owns the mp3 patent and how aggressive will they be, for example any mp3 player who hasn't paid the licensing fees is going to be sued, which I suspect is most mp3 player vendors. Could we be forced to abandon the mp3 format because of this, which takes on the feel of an evil RIAA plot (almost too much so). Blake I hope so, the MP3 format has been the worst of all the compression formats for any given bitrate for over five years now.
Not natively gapless, the only real codec with steps for bitrate in 32 kbps increments(bad for VBR), the only codec with a bunch of bad encoders in addition to decent ones.
I'd love to see Vorbis(.ogg) or Musepack(.mpc) become popular. This was an issue back when standalones had trouble decoding other formats. However, there are portables nowadays that cost less than $300 that can decode 7**x3** xvid video with AC3 audio.. so why the hell not other formats?
The ones that do can decode other formats, but most are still locked to MP3/WMA unfortunately, and this isn't going to change.
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