https://wiki.xiph.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Heyoka 2026-05-04T20:27:45Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.45.1 https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=Radiohead_album_advocacy&diff=7564 2007-10-06T21:54:03Z

<p>Heyoka: </p> <hr /> <div>Good afternoon, I would like to place / already placed (people who already placed should probably email the final text with their order number to their email support address ) a pre-order for the radiohead<br /> download album but since I am an open-source user and a strong<br /> supporter of open formats, I would like to know if it you could<br /> possibly inform me of the digital format used in the download, I<br /> understand that while mp3 has a wider market acceptance, it is covered<br /> by patents and of inferior quality than the ogg/vorbis format, and of<br /> vastly inferior quality than the full lossless encoding of the flac<br /> format.<br /> <br /> Also although software patents are still invalid in Europe, in the<br /> united states and other such countries the patents concerning the mp3<br /> format make it technically illegal for Linux/open source users to<br /> use the mp3 codecs in order to listen to an mp3 download.<br /> <br /> A Flac file however can be legally distributed and used without<br /> restrictions and there are free tools which allow anyone to transcode<br /> into their preferred lossy format to be used in their portable player,<br /> also flac is already supported by almost all players and is a de facto<br /> industry standard.<br /> <br /> Also although apple has kept their users choice of codec artificially<br /> limited, there exists an alternative software for the ipod series and<br /> a number of several other digital audio players which adds support for<br /> nearly all codecs in existence and which is available free of charge<br /> as an open source project. You can find more information about this at<br /> www.rockbox.org<br /> <br /> Also I would like to know if it would be possible to make the phone<br /> mobile number and the street address fields not mandatory for the<br /> download only option.<br /> <br /> Thank you for your time, kind regards,</div>

Heyoka https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=Radiohead_album_advocacy&diff=7562 2007-10-06T21:39:10Z

<p>Heyoka: in rainbows vorbis/flac option campaign</p> <hr /> <div>Good afternoon, I would like to place a pre-order for the radiohead<br /> download album but since I am an open-source user and a strong<br /> supporter of open formats, I would like to know if it you could<br /> possibly inform me of the digital format used in the download, I<br /> understand that while mp3 has a wider market acceptance, it is covered<br /> by patents and of inferior quality than the ogg/vorbis format, and of<br /> vastly inferior quality than the full lossless encoding of the flac<br /> format.<br /> Also although software patents are still invalid in Europe, in the<br /> united states and other such countries the patents concerning the mp3<br /> format make it technically iillegal for Linux/open source users to<br /> use the mp3 codecs in order to listen to an mp3 download.<br /> A Flac file however can be legally distributed and used without<br /> restrictions and there are free tools which allow anyone to transcode<br /> into their preferred lossy format to be used in their portable player,<br /> also flac is already supported by almost all players and is a de facto<br /> industry standard.<br /> <br /> Also although apple has kept their users choice of codec artificially<br /> limited, there exists an alternative software for the ipod series and<br /> a number of several other digital audio players which adds support for<br /> nearly all codecs in existence and which is available free of charge<br /> as an open source project. You can find more information about this at<br /> www.rockbox.org<br /> <br /> Also I would like to know if it would be possible to make the phone<br /> mobile number and the street address fields not mandatory for the<br /> download only option.<br /> <br /> Thank you for your time, kind regards,</div>

Heyoka