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

[Dan Stevens (IAmAI)]

> a lot of stuff is 128kbps, whereas 192 or 256 will give you
> better sound.

I use 192kbps; it' the best comprimise, in my opinion. Yes, it's Ogg
Vorbis, rather than 'OGG' or however I described it. My mistake :P

On 13/01/06, Mike Brodbelt <mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 17:18 +0000, M.Blackmore wrote:
>
> > 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,
>
> MP3 is lossy, but how much it loses comes down to the bit rate it was
> encoded at. a lot of stuff is 128kbps, whereas 192 or 256 will give you
> better sound.
>
> > What are the open standards? Is one of them (or the only one, or the
> > most common one - whatever) called Ogg??
>
> The audo codec is actually called Ogg Vorbis, and the BBC did experiment
> with streaming ogg files at one point. I'm not sure if they still offer
> that service. Anyway, if you want a portable player that does ogg, get
> an iRiver. They do a nuber of cute devices, both flash and disk based,
> and most of the range have ogg support.
>
> Mike
>
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