[vorbis] Why FLAC, why not MAC?

[Csaba Horvath]

Moz write:
M> For archiving, it's also important that in the future you are able to
M> decode the compressed audio. One fear that I have is that in 10 years
M> time Monkey will have gone away, and my new computer won't be able to
M> run the Win2k executable that is the only tool I have for decoding the
M> archived files. This is not silly - it took me a lot of effort to
M> recover the files off some Commodore 64 floppy disks in 1995, when I
M> could still get a C64 to read the disks...

I checked the MAC forums. There seem to be some decoders.

Linux Binary: http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/MPP/bin/APE_3.96b8_Binary_Linux.zip
Source: http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/MPP/src/APE_3.96b8_Source.tar.bz2

Or Linux users can now use Monkey's Audio as a gstreamer plugin!
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99784

Still, you can only encode in Windows, but I suppose everyone can
install multiple OSes or use an emulator here.

CH4R1ie

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