Re: MD: the death of MP3

2000-04-28 Thread JR Moore
for me i'd rather not have something that sounds nasty and uses expensive solid state media, i'll stick with my MD. Well I kinda only caught part of the thread. MP3 is diffently not the last word in digital audio formats. MP3 isn't as good as VQF. Granted VQF uses vector quantization, it does

Re: MD: the death of MP3

2000-04-27 Thread Matt Wall
: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:58 PM Subject: Re: MD: the death of MP3 I don't think anyone claimed that MP3 was the last word in digital audio formats, and if Fraunhofer's licensing becomes too restrictive, the world will find something else to replace it. In the end, if the open standards are

MD: the death of MP3

2000-04-26 Thread John S. McLachlan
There was an article in today's paper - http://www.digitalmass.com/columns/internet/0426.html Basically, MP3 compression is a patented item, and the patent holder wants money. So folks are developing new 'free' standards that have a real good shot at replacing MP3s... Now, as far as we are

RE: MD: the death of MP3

2000-04-26 Thread Simon Gardner
There was an article in today's paper - http://www.digitalmass.com/columns/internet/0426.html Basically, MP3 compression is a patented item, and the patent holder wants money. So folks are developing new 'free' standards that have a real good shot at replacing MP3s... Now, as far as we