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xtifr |
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March 28, 2005 03:54:09pm |
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Re: use OGG or shn! :) |
Yeah, OGG is still new and doesn't have a *lot* of pentration yet, but it's coming on fast. Up until maybe a year ago, the Rio Karma was the only portable that supported OGG, but then the format became the darling of the audiophile circuit, after it stunned the crowds in a series of well-publicized double-blind tests, so the vendors have been getting on the bandwagon in a big hurry. (The vendors also like the fact that it doesn't require license fees, unlike MP3, AAC, WMA, etc.) There's well over a dozen portables supporting OGG now, and just a couple of months ago, some company put an OGG decoder on a chip, which will make it even cheaper for the vendors, so I expect to see OGG on a many, many more portables in the very near future.
If I had an ipod, though, I'd probably download the SHNs/FLACs and transcode to AAC, which is also much better than MP3, though not as good as OGG. But the lack of OGG support is one of the main reasons I *don't* have an ipod! :)
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 suspect |
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March 28, 2005 11:04:42pm |
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Re: use OGG or shn! :) |
Does OGG have the capability to insert DRM inside of it like AAC/WMA? Since it is open source, I'm sure the potential is there but I don't think they've gotten that far yet. Which may just be the reason that Apple and the other biggies haven't created support for them yet.
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J.B. Nicholson-Owens |
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March 28, 2005 05:35:06am |
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Ogg Vorbis support in portable digital music players |
No, it's not true. There are portable digital music players that support Ogg Vorbis. Xiph's wiki keeps a list of them at
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers so if you're in the market for buying one (or buying another one, for those of you who already own a portable digital music player), check out this list.
Rio's Karma, for example, can play Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files.
I plan to get a Neuros device because not only does it play Ogg Vorbis, it also records CD-quality WAV files (via line-in or mic input), and it has free software firmware. I can learn how to program it and add functionality to it. There are some other users who have already done this and I hear that someone is working on adding FLAC support (it would be neat to record to FLAC so you can get almost twice the storage space without losing any quality).
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swenny |
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March 28, 2005 03:37:47am |
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Re: use OGG or shn! :) |
My problem exactly! All of this "support lossless formats" is great in theory, but neither of my two mp3 players will play OGG or SHN or FLAC. So until we/they can figure out a good hack, I'm stuck using mp3s. And frankly, the sound quality difference just isn't that dramatic in most cases. YMMV...
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