When I sat down to write the media server for my entertainment center a few months ago, I was going to go with MP3. It made sense... I had 25 gigs of MP3s. Why would I want to convert them and turn my whole world upside down. As I was looking into libraries for my program to interface with, I started noticing one thing: MP3 libraries (at least on Linux) suck! They are hard to use, have lousy documentation, and just don't seem worth using. I was actually pretty bummed for awhile, because I thought that there would be no way to write this program.
Someone mentioned the idea of Ogg Vorbis, so just to kill time at lunch, I took at look at the facts. They were impressive (and mentioned enough above). So then I looked at the API. It was a dream. Everything just kind of came together.
So besides the fact that it is a superior CODEC (dont' flame), it's also very easy to integrate into your programs.
So I wrote the program, converted all of my songs, and think totally in.ogg now.
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Someone mentioned the idea of Ogg Vorbis, so just to kill time at lunch, I took at look at the facts. They were impressive (and mentioned enough above). So then I looked at the API. It was a dream. Everything just kind of came together.
So besides the fact that it is a superior CODEC (dont' flame), it's also very easy to integrate into your programs.
So I wrote the program, converted all of my songs, and think totally in .ogg now.
Boss Ogg is the program, BTW.