car stereo and ogg

[der.hans]

Am 26. Dec, 2006 schwätzte stu so:

> 	Anyone who knows better, feel free to correct me on this if I'm wrong...
> 	My son has gone through a few CD players over the years, and it's been my
> experience that almost all of them WILL play OGG files. The same seems to be
> true with playing audio files in most home CD/DVD players as well (Look at
> any commercial audio CD filesystem in your computer, and you'll see OGG files
> are present on them as well). So, why does it seem to be kept such a secret?

There was talk a couple of meetings ago that part of the licensing for mp3
restricts a company from also supporting Open Formats like ogg, vorbis and
flac.

I haven't seen any documentation to back up the claim, but it wouldn't
surprise me...

> 	I was shopping around for a PMP that played OGG files this Christmas, and had
> very limited success. Here's as much of an explanation as I could figure out
> from the research I did on the matter.

There are many portable media devices that support Open Formats.

The page from xiph lists quite a few.

http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers

I have a Neuros II. The flash player and hard drive player combo seemed
really cool. In the end it doesn't work so well for me. I still use it all
the time, though :).

I like that Neuros openly supports Free Software, Open Formats and Free
Software development.

While looking for the car stereo I considered just getting my $gf a
portable player and having a way to hook it up to her current car stereo.
I thought seriously about getting her an iAudio unit. iAudio also openly
supports Free Software and Open Formats.

If one of the iAudio units also supported blue tooth I'd likely buy one
for me. Openly listing support for Linux is great. Listing ogg and flac
along with other formats is awesome.

ciao,

der.hans
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