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
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: MD: the death of MP3
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>I don't think anyone claimed that MP3 was the last word in digital
>audio formats, and if Fraunhofer's licensing becomes too restrictive,
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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 compelling, they will prevail. For instance,
if Gopher had been free,
> There was an article in today's paper -
> http://www.digitalmass.com/columns/internet/0426.html
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> 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
