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Ogg Support For iTunes

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."

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  1. What's in a name? by frawaradaR · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ogg? Egg? Ogre?

    Why even bother with such a lamely named codec?

    Apple doesn't (yet) even support the standardized MPEG-4 in iTunes (nor on its .moc servers... no MIME type), so why should they support some odd and weird codec of no importance whatsoever?

    MPEG-4 is the way to go. It's standard. It is here to stay for many years. It has a future. And it will have optimized encoders eventually. Just like for the other MPEG formats.

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  2. Re:Uh... by lemonparty.org · · Score: 0, Troll

    How much more CPU power does ogg use compared to mp3 or WMA?

  3. The stupid thing is... by anarkhos · · Score: 0, Troll

    why doesn't iTunes use QuickTime?

    Why do we have two separate audio decoding APIs?

    pfftplplplptpffplplpffft

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  4. Re:About damn time! by cygnus · · Score: 0, Troll
    Is the AAC spec patent-free? And if not, why should I bother encoding my purchased music to a format that I don't have control over?

    easy, killer. put the richard stallman voodoo doll down... there ya go. encode in any format you want.

    i'm just saying the iPod probably won't support it, and that the various shootouts are unfair if they don't compare the codecs at different bitrates.

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