Re: ogg vorbis
Daniel James <[email protected]>
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| Organization | mondo designo |
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> I run a small label in London. > What level of interest are you getting in yr format? It's not my format, I just use it! The number of artists and labels using the format appears to be increasing steadily, and there is a new hardware player coming out now with Vorbis support - the Neuros: http://www.neurosaudio.com/ I think it's still early days for Vorbis, but - ignoring technical quality and artistic freedom issues - from a label's point of view it's one way to hedge your bets on formats. It doesn't cost you anything to support (beyond the few minutes it takes to make the files from a CD) so if MP3 or WMA starts getting really expensive to use in future, then it would useful to have a Vorbis infrastructure already in place. For the time being I think most labels supporting Vorbis will supply MP3 as an alternative on their download pages. I think one thing that could force a large-scale move to Vorbis by indpendent labels would be if the owners of MP3 started sending out lawyer's letters demanding unpaid royalties stretching back several years. There is currently an exemption from MP3 royalties for labels with less than US $100,000 annual turnover, but that could change in future of course. And if you're employing a couple of staff you could easily go over that amount - it might only represent about 10,000 CD sales a year, which isn't exactly massive for a label with several bands or artists. The current royalty is 2% of revenue with an annual minimum of US $2000 for MP3, or 3% and $3000 minimum for MP3PRO. Of course, if they manage to wipe out all other formats, or Microsoft wins the formats battle, we'll have to pay whatever they want in future to stay in the game. If nothing else, that's a good reason to support a true free music format. Cheers Daniel --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to '[email protected]' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.