do you think would influence developers to make their projects open source, with more leaning towards copy left licenses? they won’t make much money off the code alone anyways, so might as well try to make others not profit either
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CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Funnily enough the guy who invented MP3 earned enough from royalties to barely afford a regular house in Germany. Meanwhile Apple made billions and rose like a phoenix from the ashes thanks to Apple Music and the iPod that rely on this format.
blackberry@midwest.social 2 days ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Doesn’t the iPod use AAC?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
iPhones use m4a these days for their native music app.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Sure, but they used AAC to rocket to success, not MP3. In fact, it was annoying back in the day because everything non-apple used MP3.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Aren’t AAC and m4a the same codec in different containers?
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s really confusing.
The .m4a extension is commonly used for audio only MP4 (container) files. m4a files are capable of carrying other audio codecs other than AAC.
The .acc extension seems to mean very little. It indicates that the file contains a AAC stream but the container is not defined. Could be MP4, could be 3GP could be a raw AAC stream.