I have been considering purchasing an iPod to listen to my music (obviously) without carrying all my CDs around. However, all my music is encoded in the Ogg Vorbis format and there is no way I am going to spend my time re-encoding it to another format (dont have the time). Is it possible to use an iPod to play my Ogg Vorbis tunes? Currently my only hard-disk music players I can find that plays Ogg by default are the iRiver players.
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iPod Player Question
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Cheers, big shame looks like i'll have to go for the iRiver. Anyway from what i've heard they are much better (iRiver H340), but they are so expensive here in Australia..
hmmm... dont do that get the ipod and make all you songs aac. dont go from your files to aac... start from the begining. never encode already encoded files!
Like I said before I'm not ripping them again (takes to long), Ogg Vorbis is a superior codec, and being open source I wish to support it. If it (iPod) doesn't support Ogg, I'm simply not going to get one.
Ogg can be encoded with compression up to 512kbps and it has a ARB algorithm, it can also be encoded as lossless, which is what I have done. Ogg Vorbis is also the only non RAW audio format that supports gapless play, apart from 3rd party hacks to specific formats.
Anyway my point is that I have spent the time creating my lovely little ogg files and I am not going to change them, regardless whether ogg is the worst format or the best.
Anyway my point is that I have spent the time creating my lovely little ogg files and I am not going to change them, regardless whether ogg is the worst format or the best.
right.. well i actually would need reasoning here. aac is better than mp3...there are stats and reasons for this statement.
also one of the most important thing about any encoding is that it be playable.....
also one of the most important thing about any encoding is that it be playable.....
earthtoandy said:
agreed .aac is definately better than mp3, and true if you can't play then its a problem. However Ogg does have plenty of support, except in portable audio players, but 90% of them now support them apart from iPod (infact i just read that iPods don't have enough horse power to play them anyway), and the new sony devices which don't support mp3 even, only their own A-trak format..
hmm sounds interesting! thanks for sharing ogg. i will check it out. i am a sucker for open source.
and i know what you mean about the work...but anywork is worth it for and iPod!
and i know what you mean about the work...but anywork is worth it for and iPod!