Bug#347832: ITP: mpc123 -- Command-line Musepack audio player
On Friday 13 January 2006 08:35, Daniele Sempione <scrows@oziosi.org> wrote:
> MPC is a lossy compression format like MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. It is
> based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has vastly
> improved.
If it's based on the MPEG algorithms then it's also subject to the MPEG
patents.
Why would we want to have such a program which is not legally usable in most
jurisdictions as well as having a total lack of content? OGG is free and not
encumbered by any patents, there are a good number of OGG files available
from many sources, and OGG is well supported by many other devices. Many
personal music players support OGG, my iRiver supports OGG and MP3.
It seems to me that the benefits of OGG over MPC (as you describe it) are so
great that there's no benefit in creating a new "non-US" archive for it.
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