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MP3 Creator On Sharing Music
EpsCylonB writes "The BBC has an article about Karlheinz Brandenburg, who is one of the creators of the MP3 music format. Interestingly he comments that he doesn't like Napster, he thinks that people should have easier access to music but that artists should get paid for what they do."
But a name which will be unfamiliar to many is that of Karlheinz Brandenburg
With a name like that no wonder, he is unfamiliar to many
Jeez, you'd think if it was posted to /. it would have more meat to the story. I'd like to see an "Ask Slashdot" with this guy, perhaps a more in-depth interview, but this article was really lackluster.
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And he doesn't like Napster. Go figure. I guess he prefers Kazaa, where its easier to get apps and movies too.
iTMS uses AAC from Dolby.
Evil! Evil! Not MP3! Not OGG!
just kidding, I love and USE iTMS. Apple gets far too much of my money (looks at 3 day old 30GB iPod)
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you WMA fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Windows XP box (a P4 3200 w/1024 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to encode a 3 minute song file ripped from my cdrom drive into wma. 20 minutes. At home, on my Athlon 900 running Linux, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Windows XP box, encoding into ogg would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this encode, Windows Media Player will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even playing 4'33.wav is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Windows XP machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Windows XP box that has run faster than it's Linux counterpart, despite the Windows XP machine's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram can encode oggs faster than this 3200 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Windows XP is a "superior" music encoder soloution.
WMA addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use an WMA over other faster, cheaper, more stable codecs.
Sure, we all want artists to get paid - once, for creating or at least a performance. I don't know about you, but I get paid for writting code, but don't get any additional money if someone still uses it 10 years later. I don't see why an artist, RIAA or my employer should be any different. I promise I will not pirate any concert tickets.
What this article does is, it states clearly and distinctly WHO is responsible and WHEN/WHERE it happened that MP3s came into existence... .
We better hope the RIAA doesn't send something back in time and Terminate him before he creates the standard!!!
You're certain free to go out and seek patrons and maybe even a distributor who will enter into a contract to distribute your shit for you.
I suspect you'll just find yourself playing around with your own shit in the end, though.