Re: [microsound] mp3 label practicalities [ogg ogg ogg]

[Derek Holzer <derek@xxxxxx>]

soren,

ogg? unstreamable? it was specifically designed with low-bandwidth streaming in 
mind. dig a little deeper into the documentation, please! ICEcast worked very 
closely with the Vorbis crew to make that possible. many online radio stations 
offer live ogg streams already, and i am pretty sure that you can set it up to 
stream-on-demand from a website as well.

d.

Quoting Soren Goodman <soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Speaking of which...why use mp3's or especially RA's when there are
> ogg's?  Ogg vorbis is free and open source, is supported by winamp and I
> think macamp (?) and best of all, it makes much higher quality files
> much smaller than mp3.  Even smaller than variable bitrate mp3...
> 
> Check out this study for a blind test comparison between ogg and other
> formats:
> http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2002/9/8/23472/23921
> 
> The only real problem with ogg is that it's not streamable... and it is
> currently supported on any portable player, true, but the ogg people are
> in talks with some hardware manufacturers, and since it's free to use it
> seems likely that they'll all support ogg soon enough...
> 
> 
> S

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