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| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 1 | An [Acronym] (almost?) for MPEG 1 layer 3. |
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| 3 | [MPEG] stands for motion pictures expert group, and it refers to a family of standards for displaying video and audio - normally using lossy compression. | ||
| 4 | MP3 is one of the methods that can be used for encoding the audio, and has become vastly popular. | ||
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| 6 | PeterTripp | 6 | MP3 uses lossy compression to remove frequencies that are "masked". Some of the algorithms used in it are patented by Thompson and [Fraunhofer IIS |http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/index.html]. They say that only commercial users (ie software and hardware sellers) have to license it - players that are given away for free do not have to be licensed. However, this is also what [Unisys] said about the [LZW] patent... |
| 1 | JohnMcPherson | 7 | |
| 8 | A free, alternative format is OggVorbis. | ||
| 7 | IanMcDonald | 9 | |
| 10 | If you are having trouble playing MP3s on your LinuxDistribution you will need to install non official packages. For DebianLinux see AptSourcesList. |
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