cross-platform software - ogg push (was freedom ...yes or no)

[Jim Cornette]

Zinf is a good program. There is another one that is similar that is 
called freemp3player. It works great for windows also. Some features of 
zinf are more decent than what xmms offers. A program like zinf for 
linux would be a decent program to have for Linux.

I tried to get some music interest friends interested in ogg format. 
Most of them like mp3, since it is familiar to them and does about the 
same job. Windows users like the ability to make compilation discs from 
their collected mp3s. There is not a lot of cd burning programs that 
surround the windows environment. Adding this capability to be common 
for windows users might aid in the adoption of ogg for the large portion 
of users.

I like having the ability to rip either ogg or mp3 formatted files to 
discs for compilation cds. I'm glad that there are readily available and 
efficient ways to do it on Linux.

Selling ogg and pushing Linux in the same breath seems to be 
counterproductive on my ventures. Even though free were used for both 
technologies. All of the windows based "free" software even makes it a 
harder sell.

Jim

Maynard Kuona wrote:
> I realize this is tall order, but I think taking a page out of Microsoft
> book could be a good idea here. I use both Windows and Linux. I
> absolutely hate Windows Media Player, and would use an open source Media
> player in a flash. I tried Zinf, good but lacks some important features.
> Its cross platform too, so that is good. (By the way, any chances of
> including that in Fedora?). If Fedora/redhat could sponsor the
> making/porting of a very good player for Windows and Linux, People could
> get used to vorbis if it is used by default, and with all the right
> messages everywhere, we could encourage people to use ogg. Once ogg
> becomes entrenched, i.e, hardware companies are bringing out all their
> players with vorbis support, Microsoft wil have no choice but to ship
> vorbis. It is BSD licensed like the TCP/IP stack, so no problem.
> 
> This would also be a good way to get a good player on Linux too. Sorry,
> but Mplayer, Xine et al are not good. They work well, but are not good.
> 

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