A pet peeve with a lossy standard

[Roj]

The author of Monkey's Audio has finally released version 3.99.

Guess what?

It's not backwards compatible.

Kudos to the author for being such a genius that he designed his new codec this way. Existing plugins don't work for playback. 3.97 can't work with it to even verify it. I haven't bothered to test if it processes 3.97 files.

It is sooooooooo appreciated when someone completely ignores his installed user base. Yup, as I said, a real genius, folks...

[Paul]

The author of Monkey's Audio has finally released version 3.99.

Guess what?

It's not backwards compatible.

Kudos to the author for being such a genius that he designed his new codec this way. Existing plugins don't work for playback. 3.97 can't work with it to even verify it. I haven't bothered to test if it processes 3.97 files.

It is sooooooooo appreciated when someone completely ignores his installed user base. Yup, as I said, a real genius, folks...
Monkey's audio is backwards compatible, it's just not forward compatible which is completely understandable.
I can play files made with 3.97 in 3.99 just fine, but I wouldn't expect 3.99 made files to work in 3.97.

[Roj]

Monkey's audio is backwards compatible, it's just not forward compatible which is completely understandable.
I can play files made with 3.97 in 3.99 just fine, but I wouldn't expect 3.99 made files to work in 3.97.
Good to know - I just had an INTENSE fifteen minutes while 3.97 went totally runaway trying to deal with a simple verify. I watched the memory usage for that app go well into the 75Mb range and it took me over ten minutes to try and bring up the Task Manager and kill it on an Athlon XP 2600+. When that didn't work, I logged off and the shutdown process *finally* killed it.

Not nice.

This is going to cause havoc in the Usenet binary gorups...