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Make Ogg Portable

Posted by Hemos on from the shifting-it-over dept.

A reader writes: "Taken from a post on http://www.hydrogenaudio.org "I got help from the fine folks over at the Gentoo forum to find you. I have been talking with jazPiper, one of the makers of portable MP3-players, and they was very interested in getting support for Ogg Vorbis. However, they had trouble finding a user base for this product. I will of course point their attention to these forums, but I hope you will help me convincing them by signing the petition, saying support for Ogg Vorbis in a portable device makes it more attractive. So please go here and sign it!" Another petition to sign!"

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  1. Just make them look by PinkX · · Score: 2

    At this or any other thread here on slashdot mentioning the need for a portable music player with OGG support!

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  2. Not enough information by 0x0d0a · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Without any sort of price range, all they're going to get is people saying "Yeah, I'd like a vorbis player...I'd get one." Few people can make a reasonable judgement without some idea of the cost.

    I mean, is this going to cost more than a Zaurus?

    I'd probably get one if it was less than $200, but probably wouldn't if it were more than $300. The features certainly play a role -- is this CD-based? Flash-based? HD-based? What kind of interface? Do we get Linux mass storage device support for uploading music?

    These are pretty critical.

    I can say that I'd be more inclined to buy a vorbis than an mp3 player.

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    1. Re:Not enough information by hey! · · Score: 2

      The less storage, the more ogg makes sense. If you have a full sized CD, then I think it there is little to recommend using ogg because you can store plenty of music in MP3 format. For mini-CDs, I've found I'd like to get a bit more on them, maybe 20-30%.

      Last time I was in the market for a portable player, there were these cute little flash based systems that had 32MB of storage. This is simply not enough to bother with ripping and downloading to make it worthwhile. With ogg you probably could get a whole CD down to one of these things at reasonable quality. I'd definitely spring for a tiny ogg player with 64MB of storage.

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  3. Weak Market ... by zangdesign · · Score: 2

    Getting them to commit to a product based on ogg is a very risky business, especially if it's based on the reader base of Slashdot.

    If you figure that /. has a million individual readers, then only a small percentage of those are going to have the money or the interest in purchasing a portable ogg player, which means that the production run is a one-time thing with very little chance of permanence.

    The market might build over time, but by then the company owuld probably have gone under. They should save their money until ogg is at least as big as quicktime or avi.

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  4. C'mon, just 200 signatures? by Baikala · · Score: 2

    This must be a realy slow day, I would have expected an slashdoted vorbis site and what i found? just 200 signatures!
    I know the /. comunity can bring more heat than that.

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  5. Iriver.com by wynlyndd · · Score: 2

    (Disclaimer: I do not work for them)

    Iriver seems to be working with emmett of Xiph.org to add Ogg support to their products.

    BTW, the Slim-X rocks.

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