Not really. There are very few people that actually use it. The people that do use it are just like people that have problems with a product. They are a very small but extremely vocal group.
If a product states that it supports it it will just confuse people. I mean really, OGG? Naming is everything and that name sucks. You try convincing someone who's never heard of it to rip their cd's in that format. You'll get a blank stare back. Plus the availability to download ogg based music files is extremely limited. I personally don't care either way. I don't use it and never will. I've invested too much time and space into variable bit rate mp3's so I'm not about to go back and rerip everything. Just because something is better doesn't mean it is better. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:59:43 -0700, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you also find it silly that hardly any portable players even support OGG? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Mike Hunter > > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:40 AM > > To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > > Subject: Re: [slim] OGG VORBIS Support in Firmware > > > > Interesting discussion. BTW, what is this KRUD (wink and nod > > to our friends at tummy.com) about FEDORA being a commercial > > distribution? It is not. > > > > The topic is a request to have OGG in firmware. I remember > > when MP3 was dropped from the distro. While I didn't switch > > my entire library like one poster did, the change caused me > > to investigate OGG and I found that I liked it. All my new > > stuff is in the OGG format. I even went out and got an > > IRIVER jukebox specifically because it supported OGG. I > > think it is silly my PC needs to transcode all my OGG stuff > > just to play on my squeezebox. > > There is no way ANYONE can tell me that is more efficient > > then just running in firmware. > > > > And this stuff about endless bandwidth and disk space. Hey, > > OGG works fine for me and I'm not interested in taking up > > more disk space for music. And I agree with that other > > poster that I would not have FLAC for the squeezebox and then > > OGG for my IRIVER. I don't want to screw with having to > > figure out hey, I want to play this song on my Iriver so I > > need to have another copy in OGG for it and the FLAC copy for > > my squeezebox. PLEASE, how LAME (pun > > intended) is that. > > > > So SLIMDEVICES when are you going to support OGG in firmware? > > I want it and I want it NOW (or at least in the near future, please.) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
