RE: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-12 Thread Mark Stewart
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

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-11 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 16.57 10/09/2002, you wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Ron Bouwhuis wrote: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. Ron. I

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-11 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:57, Ralph Slooten wrote: I use giFT for downloading (it's like Kazaa, but console and of course for Linux) where there are quite a few ogg's to be found. Ralph, Do you have a URL for giFT? TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:18:48 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 September 2002 10:59 pm, Ron Bouwhuis did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 September 2002 10:59 pm, Ron Bouwhuis did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Ron Bouwhuis wrote: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. Ron. I agree 152% with you here. I have

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread L.V.Gandhi
There are very cheap mp3 cd players available in the market. Any idea about ogg players? On Tuesday 10 Sep 2002 11:29 am, Ron Bouwhuis wrote: I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I don't think any have been released yet, but many companies have expressed interest in releasing consumer OGG players. Unlike with MP3, they don't have to pay royalties to anyone, and OGG is a much better format anyway (in compression and sound quality). On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:12:47 +0530,

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-09 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. Ron. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grip is good for ripping (it uses