Sounds like what we used to go through years ago with sound editors that had to have a separate button for downloading and inserting the MP3 encoder because the Fraunhofer license prohibited it from being directly distributed with the software.

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account42 a day ago | parent | next [-]

No, with MP3 the encoders/decoders source code was always available in the normal source code repositories (e.g. FFMPEG) - the problem was just with binary distributions.

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tucnak 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is still the case in Audacity... doesn't rip mp3's out the box.

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cartoonworld 2 days ago | parent [-]

Sure it does, it just always relied on external encoders.

I use audacity for recording vinyl occasionally, but for CD audio I have a bunch of cli scripts. Much easier.

	▲	bdavbdav 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		If those external encoders are there. That’s the “non-free” checkbox / package in Linux.