MP3 decoding was already free and got recently included in Fedora. But now, encoding is also free according to Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS: "On April 23, 2017, Technicolor's mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated." The Wikipedia MP3 article confirms that.
So, do you still use an MP3 library or have you switched to another format or means of listening to music such as (spying built-in) streaming services?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday May 05 2017, @12:18AM
Jean-Michel Jarre have some music that won't encode right using mp3 joint-stereo at anything below 256 kbit/s. I think the Chronologie album is one of them. (no 4?)