Re: MP3 bit rate minimums and the Archive

["Abhijit Menon-Sen"]

At 2007-05-14 22:09:09 -0400,  wrote:
>
> > AAC may become the standard tomorrow, but today mp3 is still what
> > is most widely and easily usable - even for folks on dial-up.
>
> Which is why I have not yet changed my website to AAC. But am
> investigating the conversion.

In choosing a long-term archival format, I would place a great deal of
importance on its openness (the availability of documentation, source
code, lack of patent restrictions, and so on). By this metric, I have
been considering storing audio in FLAC <http://flac.sourceforge.net>
or WavPack <http://www.wavpack.com> format. (I like the latter more,
but the former seems better documented and more actively developed.)

Besides storing the originals in that format, I'd offer MP3s as an
interoperable download option.

-- ams