Z:gnu-www-ja-why-audio-format-matters--373dd2-And in an ideal world, this wo/en

And in an ideal world, this would be fine. Audio formats would be like the conventions of laying out a book, or like pitches and other building-blocks of music: containers of meaning, available for anyone to use, free of restrictions. You wouldn't have to worry about the consequences of distributing your material in MP3 format, any more than you would worry about putting a page number at the top of a page, or starting a book with a table of contents.