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

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

John Hernandez writes:
 > 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.

Another problem is that I don't think that anyone has written a good
implementation of ogg for DSPs, yet.  I did a web search a little
while ago and there appear to have been a couple of abortive starts,
but no finished product.

All these portable products use DSPs like the ones from TI.  Last time
I talked with TI they hadn't heard of ogg, so I doubt if we'll see
support from TI anytime soon. 

--Michael

 > 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
 >