On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 07:07 -0700, radish wrote: > pfarrell Wrote: > > > > > > For a while, OggVorbis was a hot format. It is > > lossy, like MP3, but open source like FLAC. I haven't hear > > much about it. Is it still hot? > > Very much so. In fact, more and more support is coming along for it all > the time. Many of the new portable devices coming out of Taiwan, Japan > and Korea play it these days.
Thanks. Since I've been in the lossless space for a while, I've not kept up with the lossey stuff. > It does sound better than mp3, particularly at low bitrates. That's not hard to do, but increasingly less important. > Whether it's better than WMA or AAC is > open to debate (general consensus seems to be "about the same"), but I > like openness. Over time, all lossy formats should tend to sound the same. They should steal each others good ideas, etc. For me, Open Source is critical. I want to pay for music, but I do not want a DRM telling me what do to for my personal use after I've paid for it. Of course, a sufficiently inexpensive and flexible DRM could convince me otherwise. But not easily. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
