> > tell me about it. i have a portable cdplayer that will read mp3's > > burned to disc and play them. it is pretty nice, espec. for the price, > > but i would give anything for it to support OGG. _very_ nice. > > It's something about floating-point integer. OGG requires a player with > it, which apparently costs money (hardware issue?), and mp3 doesn't. At > least that's what I think I read once on the ogg-vorbis list once when I > was researching it. I was interested in setting up a home audio network, > but the only players I could find were mp3.
Right, this used to be the case but now xiph.org has released their fixed point decoder: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html. It'll be interesting to see if this changes the situation at all. It'd be great if it did. I know I'd go out and buy a replacement for my RIO mp3-cd player... cheers, ::mark
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