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		supercoder on Sept 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A transcoding FUSE filesystem for music I guess because it's better to use a format everyone has heard of rather than one no one has heard of ?

shmerl on Sept 15, 2014 [–]

Not really. It's like proposing to use IE6 because people "have heard of it".

I wonder what people here like outdated patented codecs. It's like a lose lose in all aspects.

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