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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: voidmain on 28 August 2002, 06:26

Title: Time to ditch MP3 and go with Ogg....
Post by: voidmain on 28 August 2002, 06:26
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/27/1626241.shtml?tid=155 (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/27/1626241.shtml?tid=155)
Title: Time to ditch MP3 and go with Ogg....
Post by: smokey on 28 August 2002, 07:09
well before you completely ditch mp3's try this mp3 out

http://www.kinkiness.de/audio/doom08.mp3 (http://www.kinkiness.de/audio/doom08.mp3)

It is based on the doom 1 music and this particular one is quite good.
Title: Time to ditch MP3 and go with Ogg....
Post by: lazygamer on 28 August 2002, 07:54
Explain this Ogg thing to me. Never heard of it.
Title: Time to ditch MP3 and go with Ogg....
Post by: voidmain on 28 August 2002, 08:05
http://www.vorbis.com/ (http://www.vorbis.com/)

[ August 27, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Title: Time to ditch MP3 and go with Ogg....
Post by: Bazoukas on 28 August 2002, 20:49
that MP3 makes me wanna take a bazouka and start hiting my neighbor's home.
Title: Time to ditch MP3 and go with Ogg....
Post by: dbl221 on 29 August 2002, 05:01
quote:
As a consequence, Red Hat has already removed all mp3 players from the Rawhide development version."  


NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sometimes you just have to hate pattends.
Title: Time to ditch MP3 and go with Ogg....
Post by: Kintaro on 29 August 2002, 11:48
Looks like there will be an increase on MP3 Player downloads on Kazaa, iMesh, Limewire, GnuTella, ect.
Title: Time to ditch MP3 and go with Ogg....
Post by: Master of Reality on 31 August 2002, 03:49
i have been for Ogg Vorbis for a few years now (ever since i noticed the vorbis server for rapigator (a windows download thingy)).