Re: [linux-audio-dev] WMA files

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] WMA files
From: Benno Senoner (sbenno_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 20:49:55 EEST


In short: stay away from proprietary formats, especially if they belong to
Microsoft.

BTW: did you hear that M$ wants to slowly kill MP3 on upcoming windows
versions ? (of course they want to promote Microsoft media formats so that
they can lock down the market and convince record companies to use M$ formats
because they will have digital rights management features so that music piracy
will finally end)

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/12/1159253&mode=thread

Poor future windows users: their box will not be a general purpose computing
device anymore: it will be a device where M$/RIAA/MPAA decide what you can do.

But I guess people hanging around on this mailinglist will not be THAT affected.
:-)

Benno.

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> >I'm looking for linux WMA player/converter (to more useful format for e.g. WAV
>
> WMA is a proprietary format. MS have not released specs on the
> format. Ergo, no open source solution exists, and MS have not written
> their own.
>
> --p


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