[Xiph-Advocacy] dir.xiph.org

[Michael Smith]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. Who runs dir.xiph.org currently? We should require that it be
changed to list only free formats within, say, 2 weeks, or point
dir.xiph.org somewhere else.

Mike