Ogg Devices, was: [lug] [Fwd: Adios, Internet Radio]

[John Hernandez]

I agree with what James has to say.  The problem, however, seems to be 
that ogg does not have much of a practical (or technological) advantage 
over formats like mp3 in the context of portable music players, where 
the superiority of ogg seems to be philosophical and largely 
intangible.  This is not the case with streaming audio, obviously.

With tools like LAME and bladeenc libraries available and implemented 
on Linux and commercial OS's alike, most people aren't clamoring for an 
alternative to mp3 for the purpose of transferring their music 
collections to portable players.

Perhaps the efforts of the MPEG Consortium to control MPEG-4 will 
finally push consumers (and thus hardware manufacturers) over the edge 
and into the free world!

Harris, James wrote:

> I found that really really disappointing.  I know this question has been
> asked in the past, but does anyone know of any comparable OGG empowered,
> maybe Linux based, Discman type devices out there?  I find it really
> disappointing that such a great format has not been fully embraced yet.
> 
> Jim

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