>>Besides, there's better ways to analyze music >>than DFT's, wavelets being one method...
From that comment, I'd assume that you know a fair bit about audio compression. If that's true, why don't you start a GPL'd (or invent a GPL-style license for open standards/formats) compressed music format? The only thing it would need to catch on for opensource people would be a player, compressor, and utility to automatically convert mp3s(and other formats) into the new format. And if it is a technically superior format (read: compresses more on average), then it would be poised to replace mp3 entirely.
The thing to remember is that open standards can't force you to pay royalties for using them.. remember Unisys's GIF fiasco?
(yes, i know PNG is still not a major standard.. but it is better!)
In all the press hubub about open source and such, no one seems to get it. So I'm not surprised that they don't get the point of open standards.
The almighty buck has been God with such power and for so long that most people involved with it in a big way miss the point of almost anything. Examples about, like slashdot comments to the effect that linux and freeBSD will "disapear" without "mindshare"..
But money has nothing to do with it. In fact, in most open source projects and open formats, there really isn't an analogue to money - something that has nothing to do with the project yet that somehow drives it's life.
Money people just are not going to understand this. Because it's a huge buzzword game for them right now (in the media), business will talk big and pretend to get it, and might even succeed in making a buck. But they will not understand until money is no longer key.
This won't make "bad Bill" go away! It will allow anyone to code for a poorly designed closed-source OS, and eliminate any need for porting to linux to reach the linux userbase.
Not that it isn't an incredible piece of software, mind you.
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>>Besides, there's better ways to analyze music
>>than DFT's, wavelets being one method...
From that comment, I'd assume that you know a fair bit about audio compression. If that's true, why don't you start a GPL'd (or invent a GPL-style license for open standards/formats) compressed music format? The only thing it would need to catch on for opensource people would be a player, compressor, and utility to automatically convert mp3s(and other formats) into the new format. And if it is a technically superior format (read: compresses more on average), then it would be poised to replace mp3 entirely.
The thing to remember is that open standards can't force you to pay royalties for using them.. remember Unisys's GIF fiasco?
(yes, i know PNG is still not a major standard.. but it is better!)
In all the press hubub about open source and such, no one seems to get it. So I'm not surprised that they don't get the point of open standards.
The almighty buck has been God with such power and for so long that most people involved with it in a big way miss the point of almost anything. Examples about, like slashdot comments to the effect that linux and freeBSD will "disapear" without "mindshare"..
But money has nothing to do with it. In fact, in most open source projects and open formats, there really isn't an analogue to money - something that has nothing to do with the project yet that somehow drives it's life.
Money people just are not going to understand this. Because it's a huge buzzword game for them right now (in the media), business will talk big and pretend to get it, and might even succeed in making a buck. But they will not understand until money is no longer key.
This won't make "bad Bill" go away! It will allow anyone to code for a poorly designed closed-source OS, and eliminate any need for porting to linux to reach the linux userbase.
Not that it isn't an incredible piece of software, mind you.