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Who'll Be Using Ogg Vorbis Instead Of MP3?
An anonymous reader asks: "Ogg Vorbis is hitting stable and hopefully will release 1.0 soon. But I'm wondering, who is going to use it? MP3 is very popular on the net and beyond, but it's based on patents. Software patents aren't legal in Europe, but are in other parts of the world. Is Ogg Vorbis making a chance to become the next music-standard for the net and beyond. This mainly because there are no patents broken by this standard. Will it be a standard for the world or one for the books?"
Never having bothered to do it before with MP3, I've recently started ripping my CD collection to .ogg files, and the quality is good to my (tin) ears. Someone with an entrepreneurial bent needs to sell a dedicated hardware player that takes CD-Rs, so I can play back 10 hours of books on tape from a single disk. I'm not the only one slow on the MP3 curve, basically starting from scratch with Vorbis, am I?
I was involved in one of those blind taste tests of Pepsi's. I know what Coke tastes like and it tastes nothing like Pepsi(which tastes like medicine to me). When I chose the Coke instead of the Pepsi, the guy was like "ummm...well Pepsi isn't for everyone, you must really love Coke!" Then I said I don't drink Coke that often. Subsequently, I got hurried off the stage and given a coupon for a free Pepsi. I think I was the only person there (I was there for 15minutes) who chose the Coke.