ranger: has the response to audion been surprising?

cs: amazingly so. we never expected we'd go from zero to being one of the top ten macintosh programs in such a short period of time. the best part for me have been our users. our users are just amazing. they're helpful and friendly and have great ideas for us and tell their friends about us and fight for us out in the real world. as a two-person company, we consider them our sales, qa, and development staff. a staff of unpaid interns. who actually wind up paying us. yeah, we really love them!

sf: i never imagined audion or transmit would be so popular.

ranger: what do you think the future holds for mp3s?

cs: tremendous widespread acceptance, once the music industry goes and has a really relaxing massage and a nice mint julep out on a veranda somewhere and just generally chills out and learns to love that which it fears.

sf: i think newer and probably better audio compression schemes will come along, but mp3 will stick around for quite a while. i see it becoming like the equivalent of the gif graphics format. gif is years and years old, but still a mainstay of the internet, despite the invention of newer formats with support for more colors, better compression, and so on. people tend to stick with what's easy, what they know, and ultimately what's the most compatible with their favorite software.