The Bell Readme.txt   13Feb03


This readme is for Stephen Smith's
TheBell.ogg specifically, and for the 
other ogg vorbis files I've worked with 
so far, in general.



OK 

This is The Bell by Stephen Smith
It's a cover song
It will be my first song I've performed
and recorded direct to ogg vorbis 
instead of the mp3 format



If you're new to ogg vorbis let me just tell
you that "oggs" are truly free, whereas mp3's are
only so free. (and getting less freedom-oriented
each and every time corporate entities like 
Microsoft, Recording Industry Association
of America and KODA send out cease and desist
letters and assorted other law suits, threats
and general harrassments.)

Near as any of us can tell there is never going
to come a time when an ogg vorbis file can be
tied up in the courts the way mp3s and realaudios 
can.

Why? Because the tools going into making your song
.ogg vorbis are open source AND free from BEGINNING
to END.

Most of the time a finished copy of a song I produce
can fit easily onto a 1.44 floppy. I'm usually able to 
come so close without losing too much sound quality to
compression, that if any song didn't quite fit, it 
should still be able to fit on there - zipped. 

That way you and I could very well hand out songs we've 
made to people using all those extra annoying free AOL 
sample floppydisks you might still have lying around under 
your bed and behind your sofa from back in the windows 3.1 
and win95 days.


You can get all the more information you need about oggs at:
http://www.vorbis.com

vorbis.com


For the open-source, musical, struggle, against,
corporate, buggery,

I'm, marco