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Fraunhofer Audio Blog
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Fraunhofer Audio Blog is the company blog at audioblog.iis.fraunhofer.com. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Alive and Kicking – Mp3 Software, Patents and Licenses – Fraunhofer Audio Blog”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Fraunhofer audio blog as a source on MP3 patents, including that the patents have expired and that Fraunhofer ended its MP3 licensing programs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Alive and Kicking – Mp3 Software, Patents and Licenses – Fraunhofer Audio Blog3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-19
What Hacker News says?
> The documentation on that could be better, but it's an open source project; feel free to contribute some cycles I have my own work to do, hopefully some of it not for free. > Importing MP3 means dealing with patents. No it doesn't. The MP3 patents have expired. http://www.audioblog.iis.fraunhofer.com/mp3-software-patents... > This keeps the framework lightweight This is neither lightweight nor a framework.
Comment linking /mp3-software-patents-licenses/
on “Show HN: LÖVR – VR framework for Lua”Submitted Alive and Kicking – Mp3 Software, Patents and Licenses – Fraunhofer Audio Blog as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTheir response (may 18): http://www.audioblog.iis.fraunhofer.com/mp3-software-patents...
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on “AAC Licensors”Submitted XHE-AAC in a Nutshell as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I could just write my own mp3 decoder easily (the format not the file type) but I'm not gonna risk my company getting sued into the ground by doing that. I am confused. > The MP3 format is now patent-free and requires no licensing fees to distribute or use. Fraunhofer IIS and Technicolor officially terminated their MP3 licensing programs, with all core patents having expired. Anyone can encode, decode, and distrib…
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on “Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg”