Yo! Here
you can find links to various mp3 things....
Download
WINAMP (from NullSoft)...
A really cool mp3 (and many
other formats, including xm, stm, s3m, mod, voc, and of course, wav)
player. You can also get Skins for Winamp from here. Some cool
skins I happen to have...
Search
For MP3 songs...
A fast & good search engine
devoted to finding mp3 files for you. Most of the links it shows are active,
though connecting to a certain FTP server can take AGES due
to the fact that only one login per account is allowed
MP3 Encoders...
There were some MPEG layer
3 encoders available, but since Fraunhoffer IIS etc. started the patenting
and other legalities for the format , the Encoders are not (readily) available.
This is due to Fraunhoffer
IIS asking for royalty, which most one-person programmers are unable to
comply with, so the encoders are becoming unavailable, unless paid for.
Yamaha has come out with a
new Audio Format called the "VQ" (It has some complex longform,
I forget). This is an enhanced format over the MPEG Layer-3,
so Packs much more in the same space. (eg: The 128 kBps MP3 file
and a 80 kBps VQ file sound the same, but the VQ is smaller due to its
lesser bitrate. ) This has been built around the AAC (Advanced Audio Codec,
also known as the MPEG-4), so they are much the same.
Also, the VQ format
has been commercially developed, but is ABSOLUTELY FREE (at least they
said so, let's see what happens).
Jump To:
The VQF official HomePage
Yamaha VQF
Player (still in beta)
Winamp VQF Plugin (full bundle,
approx. 339546 bytes, 340KB, .34 MB)
>>> I ain't got it working YET. (but will be soon, I hope :-)
READ THIS FIRST (Before installing the plugin
! ! )
Read more about the plugin @vqf.com
Get some good songs @vqf.de
