On Wednesday 18 July 2001 15:42, John Gay wrote: > > Use ogg vorbis, it's free & better ;) > > Would this be compatible with mp3 players? Or do you need an ogg vorbis > player. He might be ripping mp3's for people who only have access to mp3 > players.
If you mean software players, Vorbis plays on almost all of them, if you have a recent version. Hardware players don't support it _yet_. The only player is the Iomega hipzip for which exists a Vorbis firmware. Others will follow soon. Btw, Nik, it's not called "mp3 ripping". Ripping means extracting the audio from a CD. Encoding to a compressed format is a different step. It just looks like it's the same step because most intelligent rippers can compress the audio without you having to do anything except maybe telling it which encoder to use. But some people just want to extract the audio from a CD and not compress it, and that's called ripping.
