Re: MP3, Ogg and CD's

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Author: Joshua Zeidner
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: MP3, Ogg and CD's
On 2/18/06, Alan Dayley <> wrote:
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> John Wheat wrote:
> > I have noticed that MP3 support is rather limited with linux,
> > therefore, would Ogg be a suitable alternative considering I like to
> > burn CD's of mixed songs in my collection. The format used would need to
> > be easily converted to Wav so they can be burned to CDr's any
> > suggestions on this?
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> I am confused when you say that "MP3 support is rather limited with
> linux" I currently have no less than 5 (maybe more) different audio
> players on my Fedora system that can play MP3s. The legality of the
> software that encodes and decodes MP3 may be up for debate but support
> for the format is not limited.




Did you install them yourself? Or did they come with the distro?

Ogg is a suitable alternative which I would use more, if I had a
> portable player that supported. Players that support Ogg are few and
> far between. I have an iPod Nano (provided as a gift) but do not use
> the Apple ACC format since I don't and won't use iTunes. My only other
> iPod supported choice is MP3. So, I rip my CDs to MP3.



IPod nano is a nice piece of gear...jmz
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