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mbpark · 08-13-2001, 05:15 PM

Tony,

This covers the per-copy licensing fee that Fraunhofer gets out of the commercial MP3 people who use their codec for encoding, and it allows Microsoft to make extra money selling an encoder. It's $20, which is still a lower price point than MusicMatch jukebox.

However, I anticipate it being bundled with every major manufacturer's CD-R{W} and DVD-R{W} devices, just like MusicMatch and Easy CD-DA Encoder do, and for very few people to actually pay for it as a separate product.

Makes me wonder how much AOLTW owes Fraunhofer for Winamp, since they're supposed to pay for encoding and decoding. I know Apple pays a lot of money to Sorenson for QuickTime.

Mitch

08-13-2001, 05:15 PM	#12
mbpark Lecturer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Carmel, Indiana Posts: 761	Well, Fraunhofer's licensing as well :) Tony, This covers the per-copy licensing fee that Fraunhofer gets out of the commercial MP3 people who use their codec for encoding, and it allows Microsoft to make extra money selling an encoder. It's $20, which is still a lower price point than MusicMatch jukebox. However, I anticipate it being bundled with every major manufacturer's CD-R{W} and DVD-R{W} devices, just like MusicMatch and Easy CD-DA Encoder do, and for very few people to actually pay for it as a separate product. Makes me wonder how much AOLTW owes Fraunhofer for Winamp, since they're supposed to pay for encoding and decoding. I know Apple pays a lot of money to Sorenson for QuickTime. Mitch