OGG, anyone?

[Chris]

I got an E-mail recently from someone (not from here) asking for OGG Vorbis support in DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox.  Is anyone here really using this as a music format, or is this just likely to be an Open Source-evangelist kind of thing?

--Chris

[papaschtroumpf]

The OGG format will probably remain somewhat marginal for album music, even though some portable players do support it. I have a lot of background tracks for (non-arcade) games in OGG format, I'm not sure I'd want them as part of a jukebox selection though. They'd work better as mamewah background music for example.
On the other hand, supporting the format would be a plus, it all depends how hard it is to link it any kind of open source library to support the format...

[StephenH]

There is not a lot of commercial support for OGG from a music perspective, but OGG does sound good, if you use an open source ripper tool to rip CDs in to OGGs.

Loca Records is one of the few labels to release songs in OGG Format.

[SirPeale]

OGG is cool.  Having support for it would rock.

[MrDT]

OGG is a good format, and the files tend to be smaller than mp3s, but can anyone actually be bothered converting their entire mp3 collection or re-ripping their cd collection. I, for one, certainly could not be arsed  

[bluGill]

<p>Ogg is free, and if your lawyers can take the license (you do have lawyers, right? mp3 has some restrictions for the lawyers to go over, and I assume the others do to), adding support is basicly free, just use their libraries.  Anyone writing a PC program not supporting OGG is making a fairly stupid decision because it is so easy.   OTOH, for devices sometimes space is an issue and you might have to make the decision to drop it.   (Though there is a intiger only version of ogg so you might find you can use cheaper hardware if you only support ogg, and this might work to your advantage...)

Ogg may never gain much support, but it will always be around.  

[Brax]

I use OGG exclusively and love it. Of course I also use Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird so I might be one of those evangelists you're talking about.  

[bigmoe]

I use OGG exclusively and love it. Of course I also use Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird so I might be one of those evangelists you're talking about.  

I'm NOT an evangelist--I am a professional .NET programmer--but I use Ogg Vorbis and its lossless sibling .flac exclusively.  They are great, hi-quality formats, have great tools (yes, I reripped my whole collection--there are really nice automated tools out there for this--I've never been sorry), are actively supported by their devs, etc., etc.  

The libs are free, so by all means, add support!  I'd love to have it w/o having to write my own FE for it.

[Chris]

Okay, OGG is now working in my 3.0 alpha.  I'm working my tail off for a public release for this weekend, but it's my daughter's 10th birthday so it'll be hard to get time on it...

--Chris