I was just flat out wrong with that comment.Ĭervelo & Fiddlebuster and anyone whining about the MP3 encoding- don't you remember the Microsoft law suit? They were paying (or not paying) Fraunhofer (or some other company) when it was deemed that for their intents and purposes of using MP3, they should have been paying the other company. Somehow I managed to confuse the two with this topic. I'm not going to put a label on who that is, but I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. But what I was thinking of at the time were these big chain stores that come into small towns and run the mom/pop businesses out of business.

I should have made myself more clear on what I meant by that. that doesn't make it a monopoly - that makes it a product of supply and demand in a democratic economy. you could make yours open source so that no one has to pay for it.īut if no one choses to use it then there's nothing you can do about it. there are already other compression algorithms available but mp3 is what people chose to use.Īnyone - including you - could create another compression algorithm and try to get people to use it instead of mp3. mp3s have been the choice that people have made. There's not a true monopoly here bobby - this is a market driven standard. and they'd do that with every version, so those of us who upgrade would be paying for it every time we upgrade.Īlso - your language violates the terms of use of the forum. if they included it in the box then they'd raise the price of MC (and Sonar) to cover that price that they're not getting for it separately. the box never said you have a lifetime mp3 encoder and the number one reason you shouldn't get it in the box: you'd be paying for it for every update over and over again. you can export to wave files which are much higher quality than mp3's. No, it's not crap to have to pay for it separately. I'll go play something appropriately sad now. Lulling me into a false sense of accomplishment. But, that's not the bad part, before the message pop up It actually worked a couple of times.

should be included as standard in the software. Probably beating a dead horse here but, having to pay extra for an mp3 encoder for a recording program in this day and time is just crap.

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