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...rs Free, Open Source Alternative to MP3 Codec Gains Early Support from iCAST, Sonique, EMusic, Napster, Etrantrum, Panic and XMMS San Diego, CA - June 20, 2000 - Project Vorbis, spearheaded by developers from iCAST (www.icast.com), an online entertainment and majority-owned operating company of CMGI, today announced the Beta release of Vorbis, a high-quality open source audio compression/decompression format (codec) that is expected to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3 and other audio compression formats. Several leaders in the digital audio player market have already announced suppor...

...rs Free, Open Source Alternative to MP3 Codec Gains Early Support from iCAST, Sonique, EMusic, Napster, Etrantrum, Panic and XMMS San Diego, CA - June 20, 2000 - Project Vorbis, spearheaded by developers from iCAST (www.icast.com), an online entertainment and majority-owned operating company of CMGI, today announced the Beta release of Vorbis, a high-quality open source audio compression/decompression format (codec) that is expected to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3 and other audio compression formats. Several leaders in the digital audio player market have already announced suppor...

...ng costs and create more progressive technology. "The music revolution was getting off to a good start, but got clamped down when all this proprietary crap came long," said San Francisco Vorbis developer Jack Moffitt. Formerly employed by iCast, CMGI's soon-to-close entertainment portal, Moffitt and Vorbis creator Chris "Monty" Montgomery recently regrouped their open-source projects under the name Xiphophorus. Having refined Ogg Vorbis software through three beta versions, they plan to release their...

...ng costs and create more progressive technology. "The music revolution was getting off to a good start, but got clamped down when all this proprietary crap came long," said San Francisco Vorbis developer Jack Moffitt. Formerly employed by iCast, CMGI's soon-to-close entertainment portal, Moffitt and Vorbis creator Chris "Monty" Montgomery recently regrouped their open-source projects under the name Xiphophorus. Having refined Ogg Vorbis software through three beta versions, they plan to release their...

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...page On the net: http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,6015,00.html http://www.news.com/news/0-1005-200-2091466.html http://news.webnoize.com/item.rs?ID=9484 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/16/2228244 http://www.cnetinvestor.com/newsitem-bloomberg.asp?symbol=91659277&Ticker=CMGI http://tm.intervu.net/smirror/cnetradio/am06-21.asx (about 5 minutes in) http://www.dmusic.com/news/news.php?id=2671 http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=ICAST&read=96 http://www.advogato.org/article/56.html http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/0025.html http://www.benews.com/story/...