[CLUE-Talk] mp3 license fees?

[Dave Price]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:27:29PM -0600, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> On 08-27 15:42, Dave Price wrote:
> > Slashdot is running a piece today on a new move by the patent holders of
> > mp3 to charge $0.75 per _decoder_.
> > 
> > Is there a converter to covert my _huge_ mp3 collection to ogg vorbis?
> > or do I need to re rip them all?
> 
> 
> Googling turned up this:
> 
> http://dataconv.org/apps_music.html
> 
> For some reason I thought sox alone could do it, but apparently mp3 isn't
> part of sox? 

Actually, reading further in the slashdot comments revealed a list of
threee different freshmeats that use mpg123 and oggenc within a perl
script to do the conversion too.

Guess I'll have to do some experimenting with ogg :-)

aloha,
dave