Re: Convert wma to mp3?

In _ATXh.493$Dq6.142@edtnps82">news:_ATXh.493$Dq6.142@edtnps82,
Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

a) MP3 is a proprietary patented format at least in the USA and the
holders do NOT allow people to use the patent for encoding via mp3.

You'd better tell that to the authors of the ISO standard, and e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3 and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/

Unruh, you make far, far too many statements in these newsgroups that you
represent as fact, when the only fact is that your statements are downright
false.

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