[Flac-users] FLAC in the news

[Josh Coalson]

FYI,
Unless you've been checking the FLAC site you might have
missed some encouraging things that have happened in the
last few months.  I haven't really been announcing things
in the lists along the way, but to summarize:

- Primus and Phish have been selling soundboard recordings
  of shows in FLAC
- Magnatune (an indie label) offers their whole catalog in
  FLAC and Vorbis now
- More hardware devices are supporting FLAC (and Vorbis),
  the latest being the Rio Karma and Slim's new Squeezebox.
- Support in software has been steadily improving.  gstreamer
  support has helped with a lot of clients (e.g. VLC, rhythmbox),
  many more apps (mplayer, mythtv, mpd, etc) now support FLAC,
  and I think there is now a working directshow filter and the
  beginnings of FLAC support in matroska.

Josh


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