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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/why-audio-format-matters.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/why-audio-format-matters.html index 68da7c0..ec42d5e 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/why-audio-format-matters.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/why-audio-format-matters.html @@ -1,30 +1,34 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="thirdparty" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Why Audio Format Matters - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!-- +h2 { margin-bottom: .1em; } +h2 + h3 { margin: 0 0 1.2em; } +--></style> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/why-audio-format-matters.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>Why Audio Format Matters</h2> -<h3 class="subtitle">An invitation to audio producers to use Ogg +<h3>An invitation to audio producers to use Ogg Vorbis alongside MP3</h3> -<p>by Karl Fogel</p> - -<div class="announcement"> -<blockquote><p><a href="http://xiph.org/about/">More information</a> about Xiph.org (the -organization that created Ogg Vorbis) and the importance of free -distribution formats <a href="http://xiph.org/about/">is available</a>.</p> - -<p>The Free Software Foundation have also produced <a href="http://playogg.org">a user-friendly guide to installing Ogg Vorbis support in Microsoft -Windows and Apple Mac OS X</a>.</p> +<address class="byline">by Karl Fogel</address> +<div class="infobox"> <p>The patents covering MP3 will reportedly all have expired by 2018, but similar problems will continue to arise as long as patents are permitted to restrict software development.</p> -</blockquote> </div> - +<hr class="thin" /> + <p>If you produce audio for general distribution, you probably spend 99.9% of your time thinking about form, content, and production quality, and 0.1% thinking about what audio format to distribute your @@ -72,7 +76,7 @@ pieces of paper, are not patentable: no one can own them, they are free for everyone to use. But until those same liberties are extended to newer, less familiar methods (like particular standards for representing sounds via digital encoding), we who generate audio -works must take care what format we use — and +works must take care what format we use—and require our listeners to use.</p> <h4 class="sec">A way out: Ogg Vorbis format</h4> @@ -88,8 +92,18 @@ them. But you will increase the total number of people who can listen to your tracks, and at the same time help the push for patent-free standards in distribution formats.</p> -<p>The Ogg Vorbis home page, <a href="https://xiph.org/vorbis/" ->www.vorbis.com</a>, has all the information you need to both listen +<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary"> +<p>More information <a href="https://xiph.org/about/">about Xiph.org</a> (the +organization that created Ogg Vorbis) and the importance of free +distribution formats.</p> + +<p>The Free Software Foundation has produced a user-friendly <a +href="https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/playogg/how">guide to installing Ogg +Vorbis support in Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X</a>.</p> +</div> + +<p>The <a href="https://xiph.org/vorbis/">Ogg Vorbis home page</a> +has all the information you need to both listen to and produce Vorbis-encoded files. The safest thing, for you and your listeners, would be to offer Ogg Vorbis files exclusively. But since there are still some players that can only handle MP3, and you @@ -110,13 +124,13 @@ which is then passed on invisibly to users. However, not everyone is in a position to pay: some of your listeners use free software programs to play audio files. Because this software is freely copied and downloaded, there is no practical way for either the authors or -the users to pay a patent fee — that is, to pay for +the users to pay a patent fee—that is, to pay for the right to use the mathematical facts that underly the MP3 format. As a result, these programs cannot legally implement MP3, even though the tracks the users want to listen to may themselves be perfectly free! Because of this situation, some distributors of the GNU/Linux -computer operating system — which has millions of -users worldwide — have been unable to include MP3 +computer operating system—which has millions of +users worldwide—have been unable to include MP3 players in their software distributions.</p> <p>Luckily, you don't have to require such users to engage in civil @@ -130,10 +144,11 @@ the MP3 patent holders, may make it impractical to offer MP3 files at all. But even before that day comes, Ogg Vorbis remains the only portable, royalty-free audio format on the Internet, and it's worth a little extra effort to support.</p> +</div> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> -<div id="footer"> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to @@ -151,33 +166,16 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> - <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of our web pages, see <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>. --> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations -README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations +README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> -<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to - files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should - be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this - without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first. - Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the - document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the - document was modified, or published. - - If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too. - Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying - years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable - year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including - being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system). - - There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers - Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> - <p>Copyright © 2007 Karl Fogel</p> <p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are @@ -188,10 +186,10 @@ notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2020/07/22 12:11:15 $ +$Date: 2021/09/22 08:18:39 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> -</div> +</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> </body> </html> |