True Mark, Ogg is a better format both in technical quality and software freedom ;)
I fear I have (perhaps incorrectly) chosen convenience in the past over freedom :| My number one reason behind this choice is that I do not know of a free software program which can convert my mp3 files which have very wickedly ugly (and very command line / bash) unfriendly file names (space, dash, etc) into an alternate format like the Ogg format. While I respect and enjoy the inference behind your query, I submit back to the world. Does one know of a free software program which i can invoke on a directory with a hierarchy of directories and files which file names which have characters which must normally be escaped when manipulating them in a GNU/LInux System for example renaming the file using the bash shell via ssh? If I only had a access to such a program (as I am not entirely sure how one would build such a program, off hand) I would gladly make the conversion of my entire archive :) On 5/24/05, Mark Mykkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried it out with .m4a files. It appears to be an > issue with the player AFAICT. I tried it with winamp. > Seems to have no problem with .ogg. Isn't Ogg a > better format anyways? Well, I think your very right, I found the cause to my current breakdowns just after my last post ... It seems my past personal favorite, (non-free) audio player, Winamp has only just recently begun to support the most basic of M4A audio streaming... Re: Winamp 5.04: Changelog : http://www.winamp.com/player/version_history.php * added basic streaming (download) support for M4A/MP4 HTTP streams Which seems to tell me that Winamp is still fairly immature when it comes to streaming files (perhaps incorrectly labeled with a .m4a extension when the content of the audio file is really mp3)? Which also seems to lack the ability to con troll some of this download instead of stream behavior via settings ... Suddenly this seems strangely familiar to me, weird. //kracker Bush : Everything Zen FSF : Bradley M Kuhn : Software Freedom and the GNU Generation _______________________________________________ Gnump3d-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnump3d-users
