X-Message-Number: 31620
From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Radio 5 live programme
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:26:47 +0200
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On 18 Apr 2009, at 11:00 AM, John de Rivaz wrote:

> The problem with stating that such and such a media file is not a  
> universal
> format is that the web had been around for over a decade and must  
> contain a
> lot of files in some once popular format. It is not going to be  
> practical to
> re-code them every few months to the latest standard.


http://standards.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/WMA.phtml

WMA is proprietary and therefore is not an accepted/public Standard.  
Files should always be distributed in accepted standard format, then  
they will never need to be recoded. MP3 is the obvious choice in this  
case.

Using WMA is supporting the Microsoft monopoly.


dss


David Stodolsky
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