Yeah, Reaper .. because they are not in US and do not need to honor the US Fraunhofer patent.

I get why PGMusic hasn't gone native MP3 support yet. Hopefully they will soon.
For US MP3 users, many are technically in violation of MP3 codec use .. but not for long. And it probably wouldn't pay for Fraunhofer to pursue current MP3 users and try to sort though which have Apple mp3 (or other legit licenses) and which don't.
It's just one of those weird patent/copyright things that will be safely ending soon.

WIKIPEDIA:
An exception is the United States, where patents filed prior to 8 June 1995 expire 17 years after the publication date of the patent, but application extensions make it possible for a patent to issue much later than normally expected (see submarine patents). The various MP3-related patents expire on dates ranging from 2007 to 2017 in the U.S.[62] Patents filed for anything disclosed in ISO CD 11172 a year or more after its publication are questionable. If only the known MP3 patents filed by December 1992 are considered, then MP3 decoding has been patent-free in the US since 22 September 2015 when U.S. Patent 5,812,672 expired which had a PCT filing in October 1992.[63][64][65] If the longest-running patent mentioned in the aforementioned references is taken as a measure, then the MP3 technology will be patent-free in the United States on 30 December 2017 when U.S. Patent 5,703,999, held by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft[66] and administered by Technicolor,[67] expires.

I think this explains why PGMusic uses WMA format currently.

Last edited by rharv; 06/05/16 11:56 AM.
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