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Sounds like what we used to go through years ago with sound editors that had to have a separate button for downloading and inserting the MP3 encoder because the
by mikepurvis 11mo ago
Sounds like what we used to go through years ago with sound editors that had to have a separate button for downloading and inserting the MP3 encoder because the Fraunhofer license prohibited it from being directly distributed with the software.
- tucnak 11mo agoThis is still the case in Audacity... doesn't rip mp3's out the box.
- cartoonworld 11mo agoSure it does, it just always relied on external encoders. I use audacity for recording vinyl occasionally, but for CD audio I have a bunch of cli scripts. Much easier.
- bdavbdav 11mo agoIf those external encoders are there. That’s the “non-free” checkbox / package in Linux.
- account42 11mo agoNo, with MP3 the encoders/decoders source code was always available in the normal source code repositories (e.g. FFMPEG) - the problem was just with binary distributions.