[linux-audio-user] ogg for Windows made really easy

[Cesare Marilungo]

Lee Revell wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 19:08 +0000, guy wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>I have read several comments about ogg format & Windoze & want to 
>>highlight what seems a very well kept secret.  There is a brilliant & 
>>tiny (592kb!) open source media player for Windoze called coolplayer.  
>>It runs straight from the binary
>>without need for installation.  If you want to stick to an open music 
>>format it is very easy for anyone to obtain. The bottom line is folks, 
>>anyone can easily & freely have a means of playing ogg files on a 
>>windoze box. 
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>>The url is http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/ & the zip file download is 
>>only 318kb.
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>>Hope you do not feel this is OT as it concerns sharing music in an open 
>>format.
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>Personally I think it's a losing battle to ask Windows users to use
>anything but WMP.  Like it or not MP3 is the standard.  We need to make
>MP3 "Just Work" on Linux.
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>MP3 is not a "closed format" it just has some patent issues (which may
>not be issues at all).
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http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/emd.html

http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html

>I find it amusing that so many people who won't use MP3 due to its
>"encumbrance" will happily run the proprietary Nvidia driver...
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>Lee
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