> IEEE1394 etc), and it didn't handle various encodings, do you doubt > that people would still use it? don't you think they would just sigh > that audio manufacturers could not agree on encodings, let alone make > them all open, royalty and license free? don't you think they'd just > get a 2-way converter to run <your-encoding-here> into and out the > box? > > why are we doing things differently? if there are encodings that > discard information, why are they of interest? for encodings that do > not throw away information, why not use an alternate representation > that is a single, standard representation (e.g. mono 32 bit float > streams)? All this was originally a disucssion with Bill advocating multiple encodings. Bill - are you here? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe