audio players....

[Stephen Adler]

Thank you everyone for the info! This will get me going in figuring out
what audio player I'll get.

Cheers. Steve.

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 13:17 -0500, gboyce wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Don Levey wrote:
> 
> > discuss-bounces at blu.org wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:17:18AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> >>> Guys,
> >>>
> >>> I know this is a linux mailing list, but...., most linux users are
> >>> savy technophites... so I was wondering what people would suggest as
> >>> a good audio player. I'm a fan of audio books and I ran across one
> >>> web site which does not support iPods.
> >>
> >> Someone doesn't provide their data in an mp3 format? Doesn't sound
> >> like the kind of place I'd like to support, personally.
> >>
> >
> > Aren't there patents/other non-free encumbrances with the mp3 format?  If
> > so, then perhaps the website owner doesn't want to have to pay that sort of
> > tax, or is making a stand for OGG/FLAC, or whatever.
> 
> I believe the mp3 requirement is that if you sell an mp3 encoder or 
> decoder, you must pay royalies.  There are no royalties for using one, so 
> web site operators wouldn't need to pay.
> 
> There's also a gray area when it comes to free players and encoders in 
> that Fraunhofer does not give an explicet license to distribute them, but 
> they have in the past said they will not enforce anything on Free software 
> that is not for sale.  People selling Free software is another matter, 
> which is why Redhat stopped bundling mp3 software.
> 
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