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On 10/27/98 Bernd Paysan uttered the following other thing:
> John Miles wrote:
> > The company I'm working with has recently been involved in the necessary
> > patent licensing surrounding MPEG Layer 3 audio, and believe me, after
> > that experience, the Evil Empire in Redmond seems tame by comparison.
> 
> But we have MPEG AAC, and both the license conditions and the audio
> files sound better. A good starting point is
> 
> http://www.mpeg.org/pointers/aac.html

Better?  Perhaps I don't understand how bad the mp3 licensing is, but I
was under the impression decoding was free with mp3.  In any case, from
the AAC FAQ at http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/techinf/aac/aacfaq/index.html

> Q: Will there be a free decoder?
> A: No.  There is a public decoder source code available via MPEG but
> even when you use this public code, royalties have to be paid to the
> patent holders.  For details on licensing, consult kd_inel@iis.fhg.de.
> Additionally, MPEG provides an encoder source code.  This encoder is
> mainly intended to facilitate decoder development and does not provide
> AAC-like quality. 

Brandon
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