From: SteamShip <steamship_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 20:23:36 -0500

I understand your dedication to Linux which is obviously an excellent OS
for certain applications, but if you were a serious audiophile, you would
be as dedicated to finding and using the best ripping program as you are to
Linux.

I may be wrong, but it appears that you are more dedicated to Linux than
you are to having high quality mp3's, so this discussion with you is
misplaced. I started this topic to speak to audiophiles, not Linux-only
computer users who happen to enjoy music as a sideline.

[humor] Just out of curiosity, if you update your Archos Hard Drive, how
will you format it as Win32 if all things windows must be avoided? [/humor]


----- Original Message -----
From: "Johan Vromans" <jvromans_at_squirrel.nl>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: EAC/Lame THE ANSWER !!!


> "SteamShip" <steamship_at_sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
> > I simply cannot believe that people would judge a program's value on
> > the basis of it working on Linux or being open source.
>
> The whole point is that if you don't run Windows, EAC is unusable, and
> hence worthless. Its author doesn't seem to have plans for a Linux
> version, so that's where it ends for me.
>
> Now if it were an open source program, he and I and others could team
> up and port it to Linux and maybe I and many others would be as
> enthousiastic about it as you are.
>
> -- Johan
>
Received on 2003-12-21