Posted by
timothy
on from the rollin'-rollin'-rollin' dept.
bdesham writes "Mac OS X Hints has a story about a plugin for QuickTime and iTunes that enables the user to play all of those Ogg Vorbis files that you have sitting on your hard drive, but can't play because of lack of support from Apple."
About damn time!
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Shuh
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So when is Ogg coming to the iPod?
to repeat a post from macslash
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Knife_Edge
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Someone on macslash (first post I believe) question why anyone would care about ogg. I think that question bears repeating. What is so great about ogg that would make people want to use it instead of mp3?
Re:to repeat a post from macslash
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puck01
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This is a legitamite question. I'm a big fan of.ogg, but most people I know just don't care. MP3 is good enough, and all the hardware they've purchased supports it, not.ogg. This has been said many of times, because its true, and that is if.ogg is going to go somewhere it needs to be supported on hardware just as much or more that mp3. Most people have not been given an obvious reason to switch and unless mp3 starts costing consumers $$, most will never care.
Hell, its damn near impossible to find.ogg files on the p2p apps out there anyway. I tend to share hundreds of them, just to try and spread them around, but hardly anyone ever downloads them compared to any mp3s I'll share.
In any case, the more progress.ogg makes the better, even if it is small steps like this. Hopefully, we'll start seeing some huge steps in the near future with hardware.
puck
ahhh grasshoppers...
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llamalicious
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simply use Audion ! Sure it's not an iApp... but it's probably the best audio-player on the mac. Take a look: http://www.panic.com/
DISCLAIMER: The author of this post sure as hell doesn't work for panic. Thankyouverymuch.
Re:I think ogg should have been named ...
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MyHair
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I think it should've been named "og3" (oh-gee-three) to associated itself a bit more with em-pee-three.
The non geek probably ignores "Xiph Ogg Vorbis" but might pay attention to "og3" and understand what the hell it might be.
Plus ogg is a generic container format and will be used for other Xiph codecs, including video. So calling a Vorbis music file Ogg is shortsighted.
any good P2P progs to find ogg...
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dfj225
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Wondering if there are any P2P programs that have a lot of users w/ ogg files...I use kazaa but I'm not finding a lot of ogg files.
-- SIGFAULT
Or you could use
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jerrytcow
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a nice small program that plays both out of the box. I've been using whamb today and it plays.mp3 and.ogg files just fine.
As a bonus it "only" uses 7-10% CPU on my iBook as opppsed to iTunes' 20-30%.
95% of the population doesn't even know about OGG
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mitchell_pgh
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I feel, as a well informed computer user, that there are various reasons to choose Ogg over MP3. The major issue facing Ogg is that almost nobody knows about the format and almost nobody really feels the legal/$$ issues associated with MP3.
A typical Mac/iTunes user receives a free encoder and decoder with their computer system so for the end user, MP3 is essentially free (actually, Apple picks up the bill on that one -- Thanks Apple!). The argument of superior sound quality is moot then most computer users can't tell the difference between an MP3 and a raw music file (I'm saying most because their are defiantly some that can, but many don't care). I also feel that the if the MP3 people were trying to limit the availability of the encoders/decoders we would have issues, but they really aren't.
There is no motivation for the end user to switch from MP3 to Ogg.
Why Tremor won't always help
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yerricde
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Well, [decoding Vorbis on DSP chips] is already taken care of with the release of the BSD-licensed "Tremor" integer decoder.
Three reasons why it may not help:
1. Some players decode MP3 audio with an ASIC that isn't LBA-complete[1]; they take MP3 on one pin and produce WAV on the other, and they cannot be reconfigured for any other audio format.
2. Though the iPod player, uses a pair of ARM processors for decoding the audio and running the menus, and those ARM processors can be upgraded in firmware, the flash chip may not have enough storage to hold both the MP3 decoder and the Ogg decoder.
[1] "LBA-complete" denotes a machine that can run any algorithm that fits into RAM, that is, a general purpose computing device. It's a weaker form of Turing-completeness which cannot be achieved because it requires infinite storage; a Linear Bounded Automaton restricts the available memory to a multiple of the size of the input.
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So when is Ogg coming to the iPod?
Someone on macslash (first post I believe) question why anyone would care about ogg. I think that question bears repeating. What is so great about ogg that would make people want to use it instead of mp3?
simply use Audion !
Sure it's not an iApp... but it's probably the best audio-player on the mac.
Take a look: http://www.panic.com/
DISCLAIMER: The author of this post sure as hell doesn't work for panic. Thankyouverymuch.
I think it should've been named "og3" (oh-gee-three) to associated itself a bit more with em-pee-three.
The non geek probably ignores "Xiph Ogg Vorbis" but might pay attention to "og3" and understand what the hell it might be.
Plus ogg is a generic container format and will be used for other Xiph codecs, including video. So calling a Vorbis music file Ogg is shortsighted.
Wondering if there are any P2P programs that have a lot of users w/ ogg files...I use kazaa but I'm not finding a lot of ogg files.
SIGFAULT
As a bonus it "only" uses 7-10% CPU on my iBook as opppsed to iTunes' 20-30%.
I feel, as a well informed computer user, that there are various reasons to choose Ogg over MP3. The major issue facing Ogg is that almost nobody knows about the format and almost nobody really feels the legal/$$ issues associated with MP3. A typical Mac/iTunes user receives a free encoder and decoder with their computer system so for the end user, MP3 is essentially free (actually, Apple picks up the bill on that one -- Thanks Apple!). The argument of superior sound quality is moot then most computer users can't tell the difference between an MP3 and a raw music file (I'm saying most because their are defiantly some that can, but many don't care). I also feel that the if the MP3 people were trying to limit the availability of the encoders/decoders we would have issues, but they really aren't. There is no motivation for the end user to switch from MP3 to Ogg.
Well, [decoding Vorbis on DSP chips] is already taken care of with the release of the BSD-licensed "Tremor" integer decoder.
Three reasons why it may not help:
1. Some players decode MP3 audio with an ASIC that isn't LBA-complete[1]; they take MP3 on one pin and produce WAV on the other, and they cannot be reconfigured for any other audio format.
2. Though the iPod player, uses a pair of ARM processors for decoding the audio and running the menus, and those ARM processors can be upgraded in firmware, the flash chip may not have enough storage to hold both the MP3 decoder and the Ogg decoder.
3. What if the player maker got a sweeter unit royalty deal with RCA, the U.S. sublicensor of the MP3 patent, for pledging to keep the device MP3-only?
[1] "LBA-complete" denotes a machine that can run any algorithm that fits into RAM, that is, a general purpose computing device. It's a weaker form of Turing-completeness which cannot be achieved because it requires infinite storage; a Linear Bounded Automaton restricts the available memory to a multiple of the size of the input.
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