-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Ben Lutgens wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:35:59PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >"Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> writes: > > > >> Does anyone know of anything like Napster or Audiogalaxy that supports Ogg > >> Vorbis files? I'm sick of grabbing MP3's that have been encoded with Xing > >> or some other crappy encoder. > > While I agree that alot of people use crappy encoders, it's kind of a bummer > that stuff encoded with vorbis isn't playable in as many venues as mp3. (Car > audio, portable audio, etc) > > Nor are they as readily avalable. mp3 isn't going anywhere unless everyone > jumps on the ogg bandwagon, unfortunately there isn't much to cause people to > do so. Such as royalty free encoding/decoding? I think that's a good reason. Not necessary free as in beer but free as in speech: as a manufacturer you are not at the mercy of the licencing... florin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE60kGJNLPgdTuQ3+QRAtIsAJwM7YsX9NqJRtuhh7BnrKeT4/VwtQCfX3bR rSYgDRhspWN3TAtDc+GcurM= =yVCx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----