[Gllug] "Open Standards" MP3 - sort of - player with radio

[Dan Stevens (IAmAI)]

Yes, OGG is an open source audio format, that I have used in the past
and is very good. I haven't got a portabel OGG player (I have an iPod)
however a quick good search, it appears there are some portable OGG
players.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=portable+ogg+players

On 13/01/06, M.Blackmore <mblackmore at oxlug.org> wrote:
> As I'm trying to build up my fitness after a long illness I'm having to
> do a lot of walking every week, which on my own is getting a bit boring
> midwinter, even though living now at the edge of the Cotswolds is better
> than being in a city going around a park (even if we aren't in the
> chocolate boxtop area of the Cotswolds but in the foothills). So I want
> to take something with me to keep my mind off brooding over how
> miserable it has all been and how much I am still hurting when being
> active :-(( Cue strings etc.
>
> Unfortunately radio reception on a cheap little radio thingy is lousy -
> its hilly and we are a long way from the transmitter. Digital radio is
> stone dead, unfortunately.
>
> For ideological reasons wouldn't it be nice to avoid MP3 ... if this is
> possible. Also I believe - if this is correct - from comments made
> hereabouts over time, that MP3 is a very lossy compression, and what I
> have heard of these little devices playing pop is that they do seem to
> chop off the high frequencies and low frequencies. Which I don't like
> the sound of - according to a recent hearing test last April I still
> hear well at 22 khz frequencies a couple of k down on what I could hear
> at 23 when I was doing research on bats at Uni back in the 70s. I could
> hear some of the little b*****s calls, which only one other person could
> at the time. But I digress.
>
> What are the open standards? Is one of them (or the only one, or the
> most common one - whatever) called Ogg??
>
> What I'd like to do is to record stuff off radio into the appropriate
> file on a pooter and then time shift it into something to carry around.
> Some would be voice - I lurve Radio4 - some classical, some folk, some
> jazz. Hate rock/pop nowadays tho' used to play it once.
>
> How can I do this? What products are there?
>
> Can it be done....?
>
>
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