Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-04-07 17:33:39 +0200: > On Wednesday 07 April 2010 02:26:55 Philipp wrote: > > Excerpts from Jörn Nettingsmeier's message of 2010-04-07 02:16:54 +0200: > > > well, lame ain't an mp3 encoder, and it sure as hell ain't an ogg vorbis > > > encoder, either. no harm in focusing on not doing what you don't do best. > > Uhm, lame IS an mp3 encoder, that's the only thing it is, > > but it's not a vorbis decoder. > > Actually, lame == lame ain't a mp3 encoder. Its called a recursive acronym. > But thats what lame stands for... You're right. In all these years I never thought about it's name and didn't think it was an acronym, but it is, according to: http://lame.sourceforge.net/about.php Thanks for filling this little hole in my education ;) Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
