Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> writes: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:40:05PM -0600, Shawn Fertch wrote: > > How's Vorbis compare to MP3? In size, replay and so forth. > > oggs are smaller than mp3s, everyone says they sound better (although I can't > tell a 128k mp3 from a CD, so who am I to say?), and the format is patent- > free, without Frauenhofer or anyone else wanting you to pay for producing > hardware or software that uses it. The main downside in my experience has > been that the encoding process takes a good deal longer, but, according to > this interview, that's been improved greatly in the latest release. And, as > Bob's pointed out, if you have any hardware mp3 players, they're not likely > to recognize oggs. (If you just use PCs, though, there's ogg123, an xmms > plugin, a winamp pluging, etc., so finding software to play them isn't a > problem.) The winamp "plugin" has no install directions, and I see subdirectories for most things in the winamp plugins directory. Does the vorbis plugin just drop into the plugin directory? (As soon as the darned slow download finishes I'll have a .ogg to test with and will no doubt figure it out.) And what software do I need to rip and vorbis a CD using a scsi cd drive on a linux box? I've done all my audio on windows previously, but since the box hosting the music archive disk runs linux, it'd be easier to do it directly there. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/