06-26-2003, 09:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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PocketMusic Supports Ogg
Great news -- the PocketMind folks have released a new version of their PocketMusic Bonus Pack, complete with support for Ogg Vorbis and a new Extra Bass feature on top of their equalizer. It's also noteworthy that the equalizer and bass features will now work with not only MP3, but also Ogg and WMA (unlike most other Ogg-supporting players). I'm going to have to give this a spin. 
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06-26-2003, 09:18 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 65
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What the Heck does OGG Vorbis mean anyway?
Sounds like something the Bluetooth Pirate guy would say
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06-26-2003, 09:21 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 216
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And what is so great about Ogg anyways? Is it better than mp3?
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06-26-2003, 09:29 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 864
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Originally Posted by pschultz
And what is so great about Ogg anyways? Is it better than mp3?
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Open source (no royalties), supposed better compression and sound....
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06-26-2003, 09:44 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 55
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Woohoo! It works! I'm a very happy camper.
:way to go:
Look at it this way, with Ogg at quality level 0, I can fit an entire CD in about 20MB, and it still sounds great.
If you want to give it a try, CDex is a great and easy to use CD ripper with built-in ogg support. Don't convert from mp3 to ogg or you'll lose more quality than it's worth.
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
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06-26-2003, 09:50 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by pschultz
And what is so great about Ogg anyways? Is it better than mp3?
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Yup. Smaller files, same quality as MP3. I compress all of my MP3 files to OGG and they sound just the same. File size is almost half of what an MP3 is, on average.
You can get the dBpowerAmp converter (making sure you install the Ogg Vorbis codec first, of course), and then convert away! Give it a try, it's very nice. 8)
I'll definitely check out the PocketMusic bonus pack!
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06-26-2003, 09:51 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 55
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Sorry to repeat myself, but it bears repeating. If you want to hear the full potential of ogg, re-encode from the original source if possible. mp3 and ogg use different compression schemes, so you're throwing away data not once but twice if you transcode from one to the other.
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06-26-2003, 09:56 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 64
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And I'm waiting for someone to finally add MPC a.k.a. MusePack a.k.a. MPEGplus support to their audio player. :grumble:
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06-26-2003, 10:06 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 55
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Yeah! And AAC support, while they're at it. 
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06-26-2003, 10:09 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 318
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PocketMusic gets better and better.
I love this program! And now OGG support Even better
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