How to play new flavor of mp3 files

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Sun Apr 13 08:05:45 PDT 2003


On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:17:19 -0700
"John L.Utz III" <john at utzweb.net> wrote:

> Are you sure that you dont have an mp3pro? 
> 
> that's fraunhofer/THOMPSON-multimedia's newish mp3 format.
> 
> TMM is the primary licensee of mp3 and mp3 pro, and pro's licensing is
> supposed to have been designed to not repeat the previous license's 'mistakes'
> (whatever those are, depending on ones' perspective :-) )

mp3pro is backward compatible. mp3 players are able to play it too (just
with degraded sound quality (e.g. like 64 instead of 128 bit)).

Bye,
Alexander.

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