[fab] Pimping Fluendo for MP3 support

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed May 17 20:47:49 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:00:07AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > And then, at the end, it tells you how to get MP3 codecs legally, and 
> > urges you to use those codecs to translate all of your MP3 files to OGG.
> > 
> > Or would that be "giving in" too much?
> > 
> 
> There's no way we can provide an mp3->ogg translator w/o violating the
> patent, can we?

I don't think you want to do that anyway.  Both are lossy formats.  The
sound quality that would result from conversion would suck and then
you would get reports of "My music sounds like ass.  Fedora sucks"

josh




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