Tuesday, August 27, 2002
MP3 Or OGG
Apparently Fraunhofer Corp has quietly eliminated the few exemptions they had allowed, from paying MP3 royalties. Expect the selection of freeware MP3 players to decrease. The survivors will likely be those financed by larger corporate entities that have the money to buy compliance. Winamp, owned by AOL by way of Nullsoft, will probably remain the dominant freeware player, with it's licence fees easily financed from the parent corporation's marketing budget.
Winamp currently natively supports the encoding and decoding of the OGG music compression algorithm. OGG is an Open Source product that can be licenced without cost. Consider creating OGG files instead of MP3 files when you save your audio CD tracks to digital format.
Winamp currently natively supports the encoding and decoding of the OGG music compression algorithm. OGG is an Open Source product that can be licenced without cost. Consider creating OGG files instead of MP3 files when you save your audio CD tracks to digital format.
