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zevele1

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Of topic but music\software related
« on: September 18, 2002, 02:22:50 pm »

Since long i want to aks about it.

Look like quite a few free programs give the mp3 encoder and decoder.
Means they just do not pay Thompson.How can they do it? Some of them are 'old' programs here since few years and part of them are almost  well know .
Thompson just don't care about it? Hard to believe!

MusicMatch does not use cddb anymore.So which program it use ? FreeDB?
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JimH

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RE:Of topic but music\software related
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2002, 02:31:23 pm »

Oh excellent .. a can of gas.  Anybody got a match?
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Jim Hillegass
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RE:Of topic but music\software related
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2002, 02:39:37 pm »

I believe that any program that uses the official Thompson encoder does pay the licensing fees.  I've read many times that Winamp has paid.  As for other encoders, such as LAME, I think Thompson has, for the moment, chosen not to enforce the licensing/patent fees, but could choose to do so at some point in the future.

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Charlemagne 8

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RE:Of topic but music\software related
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2002, 04:34:04 pm »

JimH,
"Oh excellent .. a can of gas. Anybody got a match?"
It's kind of like having kids, isn't it. Most particularly teenagers. Sometimes there is just no good way to act.
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2002, 04:56:48 pm »

C8,
Thanks for the great laugh!  

Teenagers?  What was it they used to open Hill Street Blues with?  "Let's do it to them before they do it to us."

I batted about .250 with mine (and hers).  Well, maybe .333.

Praise the Ford it's over (I hope).

Welcome back.
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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2002, 05:25:41 pm »

I wasn't gone ... I was just watching quietly.
Good place for an experiment:
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Charlemagne 8

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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2002, 05:28:10 pm »

Hooray!! It works!!

I have a website. VERY rudimentary but I can post pictures. That's all I really wanted to do. I even have a message board and a chat room.

http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-charlemagne8
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RE:Of topic but music\software related
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2002, 07:19:42 pm »

"Oh excellent .. a can of gas. Anybody got a match?"

ROFLMAO
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