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Apple's Present: iTunes Supports Ogg Files

Posted by timothy on from the yummy dept.

curious.corn writes "I may be a fool (and a happy Christmas Mac OS X newbie ;-) but it seems that this morning's software update brought a really cool cadeau to Mac OS X. How 'bout Ogg file integration in iTunes? Yesterday evening I could only play them in QuickTime (after downloading a component somewhere) this morning I updated iTunes and am enjoying my old Linux playlists. Buon Natale a tutti voi Edo."

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  1. +2 interesting by jrs+1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ogg vorbis: better compression than mp3 but not as good as mp3pro (twice as good as mp3 and *backward compatible - YES YOU CAN PLAY IT IN A NON-MP3PRO PLAYER AND IT SOUNDS LIKE A NORMAL MP3!). not as widely used as mp3. so the question is: where could this really be used? it's too much of a niche market.

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  2. iPod + ogg support would == customer by fire-eyes · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Although it sounds like this acticle as actually bunk, if iPod supported ogg, they'd pick me up as a customer pretty damn fast.

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    -- Note: If you don't agree with me, don't bother replying. I won't read it.
  3. Tired of Macdot by xmnemonic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If this story had been about any other media player than iTunes it would not have been posted.