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

[Mike Brodbelt]

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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