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+ <P>Slim Devices' new <A HREF="http://www.slimdevices.com/">Squeezebox</A>, the wireless follow-on to the SliMP3 networked audio player, is available and supports FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.</P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.primussucks.com/">Primus</A> is offering soundboard recordings from 2003 Tour de Fromage in FLAC and MP3 on <A HREF="http://www.primuslive.com/">primuslive.com</A>. More info <A HREF="http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/23/135952.php">here</A> and <A HREF="http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2005669">here</A>.</P>
<P>Independent record label <A HREF="http://magnatune.com/">Magnatune</A> is now <A HREF="http://forums.magnatune.com/read/messages?id=559079">offering their catalog in FLAC and Vorbis</A> in addition to MP3.</P>
<P>Rio has announced a new portable, the <A HREF="http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=220&cat=53">Rio Karma</A>, which supports FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.</P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.livephish.com/">livephish.com</A> is now offering recordings in FLAC format in addition to MP3.</P>
- <P>FLAC has joined the Xiph project; see <A HREF="http://xiph.org/ogg/flac.html">here</A> for the press release.</P>
- <P><A HREF="http://xiph.org/">Xiph.org</A> is behind other free codecs such as <A HREF="http://www.vorbis.com/">Vorbis</A>, <A HREF="http://www.theora.org/">Theora</A>, and <A HREF="http://www.speex.org/">Speex</A>. Our merger with Xiph will bring FLAC into the ranks and lead to better integration with the <A HREF="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/">Ogg multimedia framework</A>.</P>
- <P>Note that the FLAC format is not changing, native FLAC will continue to exist, and the command-line tools and plugins will continue to work as before. The codec libraries will now be available under Xiph's BSD-like license.</P>
- <P><I>last updated 2003-Nov-11</I></P><!-- @@@ remember to update the date after changes -->
+ <P><I>last updated 2003-Nov-18</I></P><!-- @@@ remember to update the date after changes -->
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+ <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20031118">18-Nov-2003</A> :<BR> New 'Squeezebox' supports FLAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20031111">11-Nov-2003</A> :<BR> Primus offers live shows in FLAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20031013">13-Oct-2003</A> :<BR> Magnatune catalog available in FLAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20030811">11-Aug-2003</A> :<BR> New Rio Karma supports FLAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/index.php">PhatBox</A> and <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/kenwood_music_keg.php">Kenwood Music Keg</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=220&cat=53">Rio Karma</A> portable<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.sonicblue.com/audio/rio/rio_receiver.asp">Rio Reciever</A> and Dell Digital Audio Receiver via <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rioplay/">RioPlay</A> client<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.slimdevices.com/">Squeezebox and SliMP3</A> networked audio players<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Turtle Beach's <A HREF="http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audiotron/producthome.asp">AudioTron</A> via Bery Rinaldo's <A HREF="http://file-ext-map.sourceforge.net/">Samba VFS Module</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><B>Software supporting FLAC:</B><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php">abcde</A> (A Better CD Encoder)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>