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“A recently disclosed vulnerability in an old version of the
popular Winamp media player could provide a boost for the
royalty-free alternative to the MP3 format known as Ogg Vorbis.“AOL Time Warner’s Nullsoft subsidiary has been encouraging
people using its Winamp 2.79 player to upgrade to a new version as
a fix for a security vulnerability discovered Friday. The new
Winamp 2.80, released last week, is the first version of the player
to include support for Ogg Vorbis.“Although the vulnerability is a setback for Nullsoft, it could
help the team of programmers behind the Ogg Vorbis format. The
group has been attempting to convince a crowd of online music fans
to make Ogg Vorbis their format of choice instead of MP3 or other
proprietary formats such as Microsoft’s Windows Media. While MP3 is
the best-known and most popular online music format, developers
must pay royalty fees to patent holder the Fraunhofer Institute to
include support for the technology in their products…”
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