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

[Soren Goodman <soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, yeah, ok, I'm stupid.  Nevermind that...

* Derek Holzer wrote (Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:53:53PM +0100):
> 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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