More on MP3 and open formats

Jason Stephenson jason at sigio.com
Sun Feb 25 20:00:12 EST 2007


Not that anyone really cares what I'm doing, but until this Alcatel 
thing, I never thought that I was infringing on someone's patent 
"rights" by ripping music to MP3. I did it because it pretty much worked 
everywhere without hassle, though I knew that Ogg was supposed to be better.

Now, I'm looking at alternatives such as Ogg and FLAC.

Ogg Vorbis home page:

http://www.vorbis.com/

FLAC page:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

So, looks like I'll be spending the next couple of weeks re-ripping the 
hundreds of CDs in my collection.


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