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Open-source audio wins MP3 player support (News.com)
News.com covers an
open source-friendly MP3 player that supports Ogg Vorbis format.
"The release of the open-source support for the Neuros could be a
welcome development for tech-minded audiophiles. Most commercial audio
players such as Apple Computer's popular iPod have been released without
support for Linux or Vorbis. Enterprising programmers have created tools to
let both technologies work with some players, but overall support has been
hit-or-miss at best."
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Open-source audio wins MP3 player support (News.com) Posted Feb 25, 2003 20:57 UTC (Tue) by wartstew (guest, #9819) [Link] Neuros looks nice, but it is priced steep just to get Ogg Vorbis. The problem might be that there are audio MP3 all-in-one decoding IC's available for MPEG audio, but none to my knowledge for Ogg Vorbis. This allows competitors, Archos, for example, to produce a hard drive based player (that is also very Linux friendly, and has GOOD open source firmware available for it) and sell it in the $200-$250 street-price range. Because of the hardware MPEG-only decoding IC used, the Archos will never do Ogg Vorbis. Hopefully hardware IC makers will adopt Ogg Vorbis soon so that this picture will change soon.
Open-source audio wins MP3 player support (News.com) Posted Feb 25, 2003 22:01 UTC (Tue) by dcoolidge (guest, #1390) [Link] The problem is that MP3 is such a household name. Ask anyone what MP3 is and they'll tell you music. OGG Vorbis is not as widely known thus makes big companies weary of creating an OGG Vorbis player. Investors are also weary of investing in something they don't know anything about. Mental note to self... Search Kazaa for ogg files instead of mp3.
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