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iPod May Not Have The Horsepower For Ogg [updated]
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has an interview with a Rio engineer who speculates that current iPods may not have enough CPU power and/or memory to decode Ogg. He concludes that the Minis might be able to do it, and the next generation iPods will certainly be able to. Of course, just because Apple can doesn't mean it will." Update: 06/06 04:44 GMT by T : csm writes with this rebuttal: "According to Monty from Xiph.org (author of the Tremor codec and OGG itself), it should very well be possible to run Ogg on older generation iPods."
i agree
what do they have to gain ? say 10000 extra people worldwide ? big deal, the music industry is rapidly moving towards WMA because of the DRM, so i would of thought the iPod would support DRM'ed WMA before OGG and FLAC/SHN and other minor formats etc etc
/. and our geeky circles either cares or knows what it is let alone use it for their music collection, it is in short for now a commercial and consumer failure.
NOW here's an experiment, take a phone book choose any phone number and ask the person that answers what OGG is, then ask them what MP3 is,
see OGG has a stupid name, the people when they named it show their ignorance over marketing and creating a brand (just like the jerks that thinks GNU or WINE are good names) , its driven by zealots which instantly would put off the suits that make the choices, and no-one i repeat no-one outside of
whoever modded that redundant and not the grandparent should be shot. stupid questions call for simple answers. the grandparent has been modded interesting while the question is the dumbest one i've read all day. OBVIOUSLY it uses more memory than other formats because the ipod can play other formats but according to the article, not ogg. parent is not redundant, it's informative. grandparent is redundant.
How different would the US be if Reagan hadn't been in office? The communists wouldn't have bankrupted themselves in the arms race, and Russia would still be locked and closed. The Russian Internet would be incompatible with and detached from our own. The end result? Fewer Russian porn sites meaning less banner cashflow, cutting the value of the adware included with most closed source MP3 swapping software. If it weren't for Reagan, the iPod might well have been AAC-only.
Fuck. That wasn't very good. Now they're going to moderate us both down.
Can't you let this ogg thing go and either:
a) buy a Rio and STFU, or
b) use mp3 and STFU.
Yeah, this guy is so full of shit that he designed and produced the first in-car mp3 player before Apple had even heard of music compression.
I submit to you, Sir, that you are the one full of shit.
>>Apple is not known for choices
Correct. Apple is known for making decisions. Bad ones. Often.
It's amazing that Apple joined the MPEG group before it had heard of music compression, dumbass.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.