[vorbis] Winamp5

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Also, the Winamp team developed a Vorbis encoder plugin for the cd ripper
portion of Winamp, but unfortunately due to Vorbis' uncertain legal status,
AOL had it removed from the package.  Xiph can claim all they want that it's
patent free, but that just aint good enough enough for a major company who
could end up being a target for a major patent infringement lawsuit..  They
need something with a bit more legal certainty.

It's presumed that AOL's lawyers are checking into how safe it'd be to
distribute it, but there is no word on their progess or whether they gave up
entirely.

However, you can download it seperately from:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~abarber2/Stuff.html

Or get it from an older 'officially unreleased' version 2.9x maybe an early
v5 alpha.

Also, W5 includes an updated in_vorbis.dll plugin that fixes several bugs
that were in the older one distributed with v2.91

<p>----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul E" <public at ellisfoundation.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:45 PM
Subject: [vorbis] Winamp5

<p>> Just thought I'd drop a line since nobody has reported on it here yet
> but Winamp5 (Winamp2 + Winamp3) just came out today.  The best thing is
> that unlike Winamp3, Nullsoft's former flagship player, Winamp5 streams
> Vorbis perfectly.  It seems to be a really good player actually.  Much
> better than 3 and I think I'm going to keep it over 2 also.
>
> Here's the link for it:
> http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp50_full.exe
>
> or the smaller lite version without the new skin, which is actually a
> good one and I'm not a big skin fan.
> http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp50_lite.exe
>
> Paul
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