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Well after that article, he's probably too busy fending off a barrage of emails from /. and k5 trolls to stop by the BBS.

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Well not really. There have been several enlightened responses, and I think the article served its purpose.

Ultimately it was my purchase of an empeg that got me involved in audio codec software in the first place. I wanted to do a number of hackish things with my empeg involving CDPD and GPS, but I found the closed nature of the empeg's player software to be a hindrance. So I set out to reimplement everything and release it under the GPL, starting with the MP3 decoder.

What I didn't expect was for this decoder to take up a life of its own, and now I am more involved with that and related subjects than I am getting back to my empeg project.

Cheers,
-v