Hi
On Thursday 13 June 2002 22:58, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:14:46PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote:
> > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 2) We don't want a music webcaster to take DFCL-licensed
> > > piece of music out of "the commons" because he runs the
> > > music stream through some sort of highly proprietary
> > > equalization/compression process before transmitting it.
> > > Such a transformation might not be reversible. If this is
> > > the most popular form of dissemination for that piece of
> > > music, we have to be sure that this broadcaster is
> > > obligated to make the original piece of music, as licensed
> > > under the DFCL, available.
1. I think that the piece of music in question will most likely
not be presented in its preferred form for modification but
as something rendered by a sample mixer or
sequencer-based synthesizer program.
So, if the license requires a webcaster to provide the source
code to his audience, he will have to do it anyway, with or
without compression.
The only exception I can think of are "AAD" recordings.
(These recordings are recorded and mixed in an analog
environment, and then digitized as the final step) Only in
their case I would call the presentable form "source code".
2. I do not agree that lossy compression changes the
source-binary-status of a file. Compressing a binary will
result in a binary, and compressing a source WAV will create
a derivative work's source OGG.
> >
> > Are you thinking of MP3's here?
>
> I was thinking of .oggs, actually. ;-)
>
> Actually, except for tag editing, neither .ogg nor .mp3 is the
> preferred format for making changes to an audio work.
You can turn the OGG file into a WAV file without any problem,
and as you state below, WAV files are suitable to be modified.
The only problem in this is that you end up having a file that
is several times larger.
> I don't
> even want to think about the artifacts that would result if
> you attempted this.
>
> The preferred form for making changes to an audio stream would
> instead be, for instance, WAVE or FLAC.
There are some musicians who work with Mini Discs.
cu,
Thomas
}:o{#
PS: Branden, the other mail you received was accidentally
addressed to you because I was in a hurry. Please don't plonk me
for it.
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