washburn Wrote: > It seems sort of iffy to say that the Squeezebox "supports ogg" when it > really offers only partial support of ogg. I was pretty disappointed > to find that that I can't fast forward through any of my music. I hope > that squeezebox or somebody offers native support eventually. There are > a few of us ogg users out here! And it would be nice for the slim folks > to support a format that's open source and technically excellent. Maybe > ogg support is impossible/impractical, but I promise that if it > happened, it would make a some of us out here very happy!
When I purchased my first Squeezebox about 16 months ago, I myself was happy to find a product like it that dealt with Ogg in any manner; not many do. Since then, I've decided to work on phasing Ogg out of my library. Ogg is impressive and sounds much better to me than MP3 at any given bitrate, but nothing lossy is ever going to beat something lossless for sound quality. Storage is cheap and only getting cheaper. For those reasons, I'm transitioning to FLAC (and I hope ripping all my stuff for the last damned time). I think that SD saw these trends as well, which is why I think they went for native FLAC support and have native Ogg support way down on the priority list. I love Ogg as much as the next slashdot reading geek, but I fear that its chances for mass acceptance may have passed. -- eq72521 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eq72521's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1512 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18357 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
