Ogg Vorbis Hardware? 9
GuNgA-DiN asks: "As more and more companies start moving towards proprietary codecs like Liquid Audio or Microsoft Media or other SDMI "approved" music formats, what are the alternatives? I've checked out the Ogg Vorbis site. I'm now using the Ogg format and checking out the little bit of content that is currently available. I would eventually like to switch to Ogg and convert all my music that is now in MP3 format. Does anyone know if a hardware project has been started that can play back .ogg files? I haven't heard of anything being developed... and just wondered if other /. readers had any info?"
Doesn't make sense to convert existing mp3s (Score:2)
I don't know anything about sound hardware or any that may support vorbis.
I really replied to this so I could say "cool name Mr. Gunga-Din!" (Gunga Din seems to be the name of a Kipling poem and a film, though I first heard of it as the name of a band long time ago Sonic Youth drummer Jim Sclavunos).
Yes. (Score:2)
K. whores, feel free to find and post links.
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Let the companies know what you want.... (Score:1)
Re:Yes. (Score:1)
Too bad the price on these things are way too high!
Ogg Vorbis? (Score:1)
I know I haven't heard of it outside of this site, but I'm not that interested in compression format, so I don't go out of my way to search for this kind of information.
Only one that I know of... (Score:1)
Not many (at least, around here) (Score:1)
Re:vorbis blows (Score:1)
You seem to be missing the point. Sure MP3 is ubiquitous now, but what about in the future? What happens if the Fraunhofer Institute stops licensing it to hardware and software makers?
Or, what if the RIAA and others muscle the manufacturers to stop supporting the MP3 format? So, here you are in the future with 40 gig of MP3s on your HD and no one to share files with. All the software that is available has switched to SDMI formats like Liquid Audio or Micro$oft Media. Your Rio, Yepp, and Lyra stopped playing MP3s long ago.
So, there you are with a hoard of MP3s that were made obsolete in a coordinated maneuver by the record companies, ISPs and large corporations.
Vorbis is young -- sure it has limitations now and isn't quite at the level of MP3 yet. But, give them a few years and I bet you will see a much improved format that is truely FREE! That is what it is really about -- freedom, not format.
Ha! Wrong on all counts! Vorbis Rocks! (Score:2)
The reference decoder (in beta 3, due tomorrow) is currently about half the speed of the fastest mp3 decoder we've benched against (and equal to a few), so we're not that far behind after only spending about two days on optimization.
As for hardware, *I* own a Vorbis handheld player (Iomega HipZip
I have to get back to the beta 3 release. See y'all later...
Monty