Re: [LAD] cross platform audio lib for wav and mp3 files reading

From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la@email-addr-hidden-nerd.com>
Date: Thu Mar 12 2009 - 12:28:24 EET

vincent meserette wrote:

> I'm looking for a cross platform library con which I could read wav and
> mp3 files,

MP3 is an enormously problematic format due to patents.

Officially, to dsitribute an mp3 encoder or decoder, one needs to buy
a license:

   http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html

which is ridiculously expensive.

Erik

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