I lost the email of the person who sent me this. I can't remember all the hoops I jumped through, but if I was able to do it, just about anyone on this list should be able to.
I installed the latest Ogg-Vorbis stuff. I downloaded a newer Grip, which makes use of oggenc. And I have XMMS 1.2.4 installed, which recognizes the ogg files. This is on a pretty much standard potato install (I think that I downloaded the libc6 deb from woody and that was all) and is working great for my CD collection so far. I'm not sure if the quality is really vastly superior to mp3's, or it just seems that way because of all the politics. Either way, I am extremely happy with it. -Lang SUBJECT: RE: Ogg Vorbis-Potato You may have noticed that there are Vorbis packages in Potato, or is it just in my special distribution? Anyway, that's beta3, you should get beta4 from http://www.vorbis.com. The tar.gz archives are prepared for Debian. You don't have to compile and install them like the poor (?) guys with non-debian systems. Type dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us in each directory and you get clean debian packages. There's just one problem that we old-fashioned Potato users share: Potato doesnt seem to contain a GUI application that can plays Oggs. The XMMS version is too old to recognize the vorbis plugin. I'm not sure about the others. Please let me know if you find somthing. Robert jUST A TST -- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. -- G. B. Shaw
