Bug#347832: ITP: mpc123 -- Command-line Musepack audio player

2006-01-12 Thread Daniele Sempione
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniele Sempione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mpc123 Version : 0.1.9 Upstream Author : Fernando Vezzosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mpc123.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Command-line Mu

Bug#347832: ITP: mpc123 -- Command-line Musepack audio player

2006-01-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 13 January 2006 08:35, Daniele Sempione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MPC is a lossy compression format like MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. It is > based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has vastly > improved. If it's based on the MPEG algorithms then it's also subject to the MPEG patents

Bug#347832: ITP: mpc123 -- Command-line Musepack audio player

2006-01-24 Thread Daniele Sempione
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:32:39PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > If it's based on the MPEG algorithms then it's also subject to the MPEG > patents. > [...] > It seems to me that the benefits of OGG over MPC (as you describe it) are so > great that there's no benefit in creating a new "non-US" arc