Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Let sleeping Oggs lie - it's a music file format without support or hope
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> | The recent MP3 lawsuit illustrates the problem. Microsoft thought it
> | was safe because, like Apple and others, it had licensed MP3 from
> | the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. Along came Alcatel-Lucent,
> | the telecoms equipment giant, with some patent claims, and Microsoft
> | was fined $1.52bn (£758m) by a US court.
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> http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2059851,00.html
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> He seems to be unware of the trend...
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> Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support
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> | While Ogg Vorbis format has not gained much adoption in music
> | sales and portable players, it is not an unsupported format in
> | the industry. Toy manufacturers (e.g. speaking dolls), voice
> | warning systems, and reactive audio devices exploit Ogg Vorbis
> | for its good quality at small bit-rates.
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> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/1931244&from=rss
Maybe Ogg Vorbis is gaining support...but I haven't detected much sign
of this. When I got my first version of Ubuntu (Breezy Badger I
believe), the music player supplied didn't play mp3s - Ubuntu doesn't
support restricted formats "out of the box". So, before downloading
the necessary to enable it to play my mp3s, I had a look around to see
what was available in the Ogg Vorbis format. And I found very
little. I'm one of those evil, copyright-flouting villains who
downloads tracks off the internet for free, without permission, and
there was virtually nothing available in Ogg Vorbis. There are some
songs by unsigned artists here and there. But not much else.
Speaking dolls and voice warning systems are all very well, but it is
in the realm of music where the fortunes of formats like this must lie.
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