Playing MP3s
Temlakos
temlakos at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 15:59:53 UTC 2006
Robin Laing wrote:
> Temlakos wrote:
>
>> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> So, why is it that I can not play an MP3 through any of the KDE
>>> audio players that come installed 9with you install the KDE stuff)
>>> and yet when I manually compiled and installed XMMS, I can play them
>>> just fine?
>>>
>>
>
> >Snip<
>
>> Temlakos
>>
>
> Temlakos,
>
> Good description. Very good.
>
> I rip my CD's to flac which is a lossless format. Then I use
> soundconverter (Dries) to convert to ogg for playing on my iRiver. After
> testing, I found that ogg or mp3 compression at high quality creates
> files that are very similar in size.
>
Thanks for the tip. Thanks also to the poster who reminded me that Ogg
Vorbis-compatible hardware does exist. In fact, here's an excellent Wiki
page from Xiph.org:
http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisHardware
Temlakos
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