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um, you are already locked in by Real
um, you are already locked in by Real
Posted Nov 16, 2006 5:52 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (subscriber, #421)In reply to: Resisting the binary blob by smitty_one_each
Parent article: Resisting the binary blob
If you are using RealAudio format then you are already trapped by vendor lock-in, regardless of whether you use an iPod.
Using open file formats is far more important than what hardware/OS you pick. The latter trap can be replaced, the former trap (especially for lossy compression) is much more difficult to escape.
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um, you are already locked in by Real
Posted Nov 16, 2006 9:19 UTC (Thu) by morhippo (subscriber, #334) [Link]
Unless the format is DRM restricted, I think mplayer should be able to recode the realaudio music into any free format.