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Thoughts on the New Crop of Ogg Aware Players?

Posted by Cliff on Friday December 5, 2003 @02:30PM from the something-other-than-MP3 dept.

Steve Andre' asks: " Given the approaching season, I'm wondering if many have used and have opinions about the new Ogg Vorbis capable portable players out there. What I'd like to find is at least a CD/MP3/Ogg capable player which sounds good and doesn't do 'odd' things. What's it like out there? Can I finally roast my Ogg files and take them with me for a walk?"

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Re:Oog Vorbis, a user's account by Drakonian · 2003-12-05 14:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

But you don't have the cash for the 400 GB drive.
That made me think of something. I wonder if the reason why there are so few hardware Ogg players because Ogg is mostly used by Linux users. And to some extent, Linux is often run on old hardware. More so than Windows and certainly more so than Mac. Linux is also free as in beer. Like you, maybe many Ogg users don't have the cash to pay for new hardware. So they don't have the cash/won't spend it on Ogg players either. So they don't sell, so companies don't make them.

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