On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:18:48 -0700
shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> On Monday 09 September 2002 10:59 pm, Ron Bouwhuis did speak unto the 
> huddled masses, saying:
> 
> > I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG
> > format.  Sound quality is extraordinary and files are
> > smaller than MP3.  Just need those tiny pocket players
> > to support the format and MP3 would be dead.
> 
> tell me about it.  i have a portable cdplayer that will read mp3's
> burned to disc and play them.  it is pretty nice, espec. for the price,
> but i would give anything for it to support OGG.  _very_ nice.

It's something about floating-point integer. OGG requires a player with
it, which apparently costs money (hardware issue?), and mp3 doesn't. At
least that's what I think I read once on the ogg-vorbis list once when I
was researching it. I was interested in setting up a home audio network,
but the only players I could find were mp3.

Todd


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