Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] Ogg Playing

[Alexandro Colorado]

On Mon, 21 May 2007 15:05:09 -0500, <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello, friends... I have some questions... (I'm not sure this is the  
> place to ask this, but, anyway... I'm sorry if it isn't)
>
> Can a band be sued for giving their songs for free in MP3/WMA format? Or  
> only the software that plays MP3 has restrictions?
>
> I'd like to make a sort of online radio in ogg... I have a small  
> personal website, only for hobby, and would like to upload my favorite  
> songs, and play them randomly... like m3u, pls... I'm not sure how to do  
> that... and I was hoping to have javascript to automatically play it,  
> stop, go to next song, etc... maybe it's asking too much... Does anybody  
> know if this is possible? Where can I learn how to do that, if so?
>
> Do you think open-source enthusiasts should offer proprietary options  
> too, after all, free software is about freedom, or only the free ones?
>
> Thank you so much

I am not a lawyer, but the licensing of mp3 is for encoding and decoding  
mp3 not on it's used. So the ones liable are the people making a decoder  
of mp3 (player) or encoders (mp3 creator).

However regardless if you are liable or not, this list is to expand the  
use of OGG and I think that having ogg vorbis streamer servers is vital  
for the usability of ogg vs. other formats.

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