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Ogg Vorbis Portables On The Way

Posted by timothy on from the when-when-when dept.

Emmettfish writes "According to this release on Xiph.org, it looks like the Neuros player will support Linux users, and also give them the ability to play back Vorbis files on the move, starting in late May. Go Ogg! Remember, donating a few bucks to Xiph may not make the world a better place, but it'll definitely help it sound a lot better." For those of us craving a portable that plays from cheap CD-Rs rather than flash media or a hard drive, Emmett says by email that an agreement for development of firmware for a CD-based Ogg player is in the works, too.

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  1. Ogg Vorbis is Pure Shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's true. Ogg (or OGG or OgG or oGG) is complete shit. No one should waste their time with this format (except perhaps when using cheat portable music players with crappy headphones and loud background noises). Any other way it would be very easy to spot the terrible sound of the format at even high bitrates (360+) (like indoors and through a good stereo).

    The read deal of audio formats is MPC. Although you may not have heard of it, it is the best format for great sounding audio. And unlike Ogg, MPC has no patents. You may have heard Ogg is free from patents, but this is just not true. It is simply AOL spread FUD. AOL directly holds a great number of patents on Ogg Vorbis and they have secretly embedding DRM (Digital Rights Management) software into Ogg. It is now possible to track users of the Ogg format and in the future these users may be charged for infringing copywrites. Would you want to be charged by some souless company just for exercising your god given rights? I would rather go to hell.

    So the next time you download an Ogg formatted music file, watch out. When borrowing a mixed CD from a friend encodded in Ogg Vorbis, watch out. Because someone is surely watching you.