Re: [Protux-devel] Re: MustuxAudioFileFormat

[Luciano Giordana]

On Tuesday 16 March 2004 08:13 am, rsff wrote:
> Luciano,
>
> As far as I know, MP3 is not royalty free. its license is very much
> closed. (its Free, as in freebie, not as in free software.)
>
> Also, its not a very good format at all. Ogg Vorbis performs a great
> deal better, with better compression and less loss. I think we should
> not support MP3...
>
> Fabio.

I did know about ogg advantages in terms of being free (software), that's why 
I implemented native import myself. 

So Remon's idea of generating peaks while import is possible only in wav, ogg, 
and other royaltyfree formats, but not in mp3



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