[Xiph-Advocacy] dir.xiph.org
Gregory Maxwell
gmaxwell at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 12:33:48 PST 2009
So, dir.xiph.org is the Icecast directory linked prominently from the
Xiph sites.
It lists non-free formats. At some point you could have made a
straight faced argument that by supporting MP3 we were in a better
embrace-and-extend position, and that there we big compatibility
reasons for sites to offer MP3.
Today there are almost as many AAC* sites listed as Vorbis ones, and
only one stream in the top twenty offers a free format. I think this
is embarrassing and counter-productive. If dir.xiph.org continues as
dir.*xiph.org* it should list only free formats.
Thoughts?
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