mp3 rippers are free also.. until someone gives me a good reason to switch, I'll stick with mp3. at least they will play in the new car decks without having to be converted to cd form.
Is ogg a newer format or something. Until reading this post I have never heard of it. Give me some details please.
Linux Journal published a big Ogg article a year or so ago and they were really hying this format up as the end-all t replace other formats. The capability to compress more data into a smaller package was part of Ogg's promise and LJ did everything but come out and say that Ogg would completely replace MP3. Well, today, Ogg is still trying to capture MP3's following. I just can't see it taking things over. For one, Ogg is not a very cool name (not trying to be funny). Who wants to ask their friend if they have a new Ogg Vorbis player? Also, MP3 has rooted itself deeply. It's pretty easy to replace a personal entertainment device such as a MP3 walkman, but to allow someone to play MP3s on their car stereo where you could have one hundred or more songs on a disk...you've got them hooked. It took manufacturers a while to get on the MP3 bandwagon and it'll probably take a major player to do the same with Ogg.
I forgot to mention that Ogg is open-source and has no patents like MP3. Here's a link to an FAQ page... http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp
I am pretty sure the iPod supports ogg. Why wouldn't stereo companys try to push ogg compatible systems? It just adds money to their pockets.
My mp3 player can play ogg files, but I doubt I'll be ripping ogg files anytime soon. I'm all mp3 still.
there would have to be a consumer demand for a major player manufacturer to take a chance on supporting a new format. Dont expect them to support ogg till it has become the defacto standard online. Doc, but not hardware players, true? I know that MMJukebox and Winamp will play ogg...but will the indash mp3 players play ogg?
I remember a file format called .VQF a few years ago that was supposed to replace mp3. Never really took off. What happened to .mp4?
I just bought an in-dash MP3 player for my car... there ain't no way I'm switching to OGG. just curious...Awg, Ogg or OH-GEE-GEE?
Ogg as in Dog is what I've read. BTW, ogg is a giant container name for various projects. Ogg Vorbis is the "sound project", Ogg Theora I believe is the video project. So your audio file would be a Vorbis file, not an Ogg file... or somethin' like that... You can learn more at www.xiph.org.
OGG is suppose to be the superior format, in both quality and being open source, but I think the big killer is that there isn't any hardware companies implementing it. Look at ACC, with apple backing it on the iPod and in iTunes, it really took off. I'm still hoping that OGG will enjoy similar success.
Portable Ogg players? I know none of my current portable MP3 players will play .ogg and there is no way I would switch unless something else came along that also gave me an incentive to dump my current MP3 players.
The Neuros will have vorbis support. They're working on it directly with xiph.org. www.neurosaudio.com http://www.neurosaudio.com/press/news_item.aspx?itemID=138
