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Reply #50 –
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I think an easier approach would be to do a timeline at the same pace you gather information. That's another reason of making it vertical - you can stretch it as much as you want.

Here's what I have in mind:
http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/timeline.html

I agree, that's a better format since expandability would be important, and you could go into as much or as little detail as you want without having to rescale the timeline over-and-over.

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So, the template and the guidelines are there. Also, you can find the dates at each program's page. Any good soul wiling to help me on this one?

Count me in!

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Reply #51 –
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Count me in!

Since I believe several people are dying to help in this effort...

I created a page at AudioCoding's wiki (hope Menno doesn't mind) that everyone can drop by and add dates and facts they know about. That will probably help avoid redundant work. From that page, I'll gather the information to throw at timeline.html.

The basic formatting is already laid out. If you have questions, post here or mail me.

http://www.audiocoding.com/wiki/index.php?...p?page=timeline

Thanks a lot.

Regards;

Roberto.

BTW: In case anyone is curious: I chose AudioCoding's wiki over HA's wiki because you don't have to create an account to be able to edit the page. I imagine that would be a turnoff for some people.

PS: The format is:
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== year ==
* month-day (if available) - Short description of what happened.
* month-day (if available) - Short description of what happened. 

== year+1 ==
* month-day (if available) - Short description of what happened.


The dates go from earlier at the top to later at the bottom.

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Reply #52 –
Thanks for the great site Roberto!

I downloaded some of the encoders, compressed some WAV files and created some new defs for my TrID tool.
I have also edited some of the reference URLs in the defs to points to your pages.

Bye!

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Reply #53 –
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Next step, bring back VQF forum, with anonymous posting enabled.



VQF.COM IST GOD!!
hydrogenaudio IST DEATH

YOU KNOW ME


-good old times

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Reply #54 –
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-good old times

I miss them too...


Minor update: K+K research TAC (lots of history there), M3E MP3 encoder (huge kudos to harashin) and SCMPX.

More to come...



PS: WOOT! 4000 posts!!!!!  (w00t)

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Reply #55 –
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PS: WOOT! 4000 posts!!!!!  (w00t)

Congratulations!!!

(On both your site and in the post count)

I think you have spent more than your share of time in both endeavors   
I'm the one in the picture, sitting on a giant cabbage in Mexico, circa 1978.
Reseñas de Rock en Español: www.estadogeneral.com

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Reply #56 –
Maybe I have found something that could be added to ReallyRareWares.

ECHOSPEECH Speech Compression V1.0
This is a DOS shareware version (freely distributable) from 1995.
LinK (95KB): http://mark0.ngi.it/rrw/espch10.zip
EchoSpeech has a webpage with Win16, Win32 and Mac plugin, here: http://www.echospeech.com/

SpchComp 2.22
Another old shareware (freely distributable) Windows speech encoder, from 1996.
LinK (232KB): http://mark0.ngi.it/rrw/scutl222.zip

WavSquiq 0.90b
A freeware DOS WAV compressor dated 1997. I was not able to get it working: tryed on a
XP WDM, Win 98 under VirtualPC, and even under DOSBox. Maybe it could work under plain old DOS...
LinK (8KB): http://mark0.ngi.it/rrw/wavsq090.zip


Bye!

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Reply #57 –
Hello.

Just added the AAC section (that is hosted here at Brazil, for patent reasons)

@mark0: Thanks a lot, already downloaded them and will add to the page with next update

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Reply #60 –
Thanks for the hints, Gabriel.

BTW: A suggestion for you: update your links section
It still links to KM's cad-audio.fsn.net. If you really want to link to that page, link to my mirror instead:
http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/km/audiocomp1.html

Also, MP3.com and VQF.com are dead. And FhG's address changed.


Anyway, today I won't update the page. It's because I want to keep a close eye on bandwidth consumption, I'm limited to 5Gb and in these 4 days since I launched the site more than 500Mb were used. No reason to worry, of course, if things get critical I'll pull the site offline until the end of the month

Tomorrow I'll add a Players section and update several other sections. Will also add several Lame binaries, courtesy of GetID3().

Thanks for all your support.

Regards;

Roberto.

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Reply #61 –
Fascinating page Roberto... for some reason the Voxware codec (MetaVoice) interest me, maybe because I participated in some early Voxware tests in 1995/1996 (some kind of Internet "CB radio" that preceded Televox, I think) and it worked amazingly well at 14.4k.  Also, I wonder if it's still useful for super low bitrate voice streams, and why Voxware no longer markets the codec... anyone know?  Still a lot of dialup modem users... what ever happened?

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Reply #62 –
Here's another lossless encoder that I was not aware of:

LTAC (Lossless Transform Audio Compression) by Tilman Liebchen
http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/ltac.html

There are DOS & Windows versions of the program, from around 1997-98.

Bye!

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Reply #64 –
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Another one:

Split2000

Wow. You are managing to find some real rarities there. :B

Thanks.

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Reply #65 –
Added several old versions of lame (thanks, getID3() ), and LBpack, a very interesting codec that is closely related to QDesign (thanks Geert from Belgium)

More updates later tonight, probably.

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Reply #66 –
The first ever MP3 software encoder!
Only available at ReallyRareWares...


Hello.

I just added l3enc 1.00 to the l3enc section. Released on July 1994, this was the first publicly available software MP3 encoder - earlier encoders were all hardware based, and extremely expensive.

I think it's a really interesting piece of software, to find out how MP3s sounded when they were premiered on PCs

Surprisingly it works well on my Win 2000 (therefore should work well on other modern Windows versions), and it output perfectly compliant streams on the limited tests I performed.


Also, added new builds of Psytel AACenc. That collection is probably complete now.

Regards;

Roberto.

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Reply #67 –
nevermind I'll message him
gentoo ~amd64 + layman | ncmpcpp/mpd | wavpack + vorbis + lame

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Reply #68 –
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nevermind I'll message him

If it's about the link, I fixed it already

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Reply #69 –
Yeah it was, I thought it would be nice to message you instead of post it on the board.
gentoo ~amd64 + layman | ncmpcpp/mpd | wavpack + vorbis + lame

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Reply #70 –
HAHA! KM is threatening to sue me!

more details:
http://pessoal.onda.com.br/rjamorim/rrw/km.txt

I moved the tac page and the mirrors to my Brazilian account. Not because I'm afraid of him, but because I'm afraid 1and1 might cancel my account first and ask later.

It's now here:
http://pessoal.onda.com.br/rjamorim/rrw/tac.html

What do you guys think? Should I be scared? Should I laugh? Suggestions?

Regards;

Roberto.

Edit: It's worth mentioning his beloved page is mirrored at the Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000307060556/...n.net/index.htm

And his programs are also mirrored:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000024618
Besides, his programs are public betas, so I guess he really has no right to bitch.

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Reply #71 –
I think it's fair to say you have your freedom of speech, and I don't see you claiming the software, web page or its images are yours - it quite clearly states who made what infact

I would personally email him back and ask his lawyers to prepare a lawsuit against those copyright theivers at www.archive.org, they stole his design!
< w o g o n e . c o m / l o l >

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Reply #72 –
I've received the same threats!!!  I'm afraid I wasn't too diplomatic -
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First, it's not my site, and second, don't talk such complete rubbish.
What's the problem, the truth hurt?

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Reply #73 –
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more details:
http://pessoal.onda.com.br/rjamorim/rrw/km.txt

looks like holllow threat to me, based on the slightest chance some dumbass might actually believe his litle fairytail of lawyers... deosn't seem to be very professional at all.

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I've received the same threats!!!  I'm afraid I wasn't too diplomatic
that still is diplomatic in this case 
Nothing but a Heartache - Since I found my Baby ;)

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Reply #74 –
Haha. Great answer, John33

Mike got threat letters too. I expect Rafael (site designer) got them too. That's bullshit, at the very About page I only mention me as site owner and maintainer.

Anyway, I'm fairly sure KM has no grounds to sue me. His letters definitely sound like FUD to me. Why:

-About stealing his "Design, Text and Photos": First, I never claimed they were mine, so I'm not stealing anything. I actually mention at the tac page the mirrored pages were made by him. Also, if mirroring pages without changing them was "stealing", archive.org would be in deep shit.

-Stealing software: Bullshit, it was a public demo, that is available to this day at several web pages. E.G: here.

-About calling him a liar: This one is more tricky. The proofs were at the VQF.com forums, that have now gone offline. I can think of countless eyewitnesses that SAW KM lieing about not owning an e-mail address (that he used to try to screw Ivan's site at hypermart), but since there are no more proofs.. heh
Maybe it would be safer to just cut the part about him being caught lieing?