On Oct 17, 8:30 am, "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick.n.st...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:14:18 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> > Use Ogg - The Media Format of Freedom
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> Why?
> So you can turn your media player, car audio system,PDA, cell phone etc
> into a brick?
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> The number of devices supporting OGG is miniscule.
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers
is a list of Xiph-aware players; these apparently support both Ogg and
Vorbis.
I count over 100, though that may indeed by extremely miniscule
compared to the total market.
>
> Most people care abut playing music, not about fighting some religious
> freedom war.
Absolutely correct. A free format is useless if it doesn't support
the people (and that *includes* major music moguls, who want
to protect their copyright investment using DRM or other such
methods).
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> --
> Moshe Goldfarb
> Collector of soaps from around the globe.
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(Yes, Teranews posting is borked again.)
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