[advocacy] Re: is this list active?

[ChristianHJW]

Daniel James wrote:
> MP3 is still far more
> accessible than Vorbis among internet users generally.
> Daniel

If Tobias Waldvogel didnt make the Ogg DirectShow filters, WinAmp was
still the only widespread player on Windows allowing people to listen to
their Vorbis files. AFAIK this filter does not allow to listen to Vorbis
stuff coming from icecast servers over HTTP ( not 100% sure here ), so
for doing that people are still doomed to let crappy winamp on their
PCs, stealing all audio extensions and doing other nice things, and lets
not forget its payware and belongs to AOL today.

Sure, there are nice players for Windows that could be used and are free
for that ( VLC, Foobar2000, etc. ), but as a matter of fact many people
never heard of them and WMP is installed on every machine, and it will
play MP3 from HTTP out of the box, without the need to install any
additional filters.

Xiph should really rethink their implementation philosophy IMO. They
seem to think its enough to make some nice libs, and the world will
somehow care about creating apps from that. At least in this respect you
guys could learn from the matroska project ( sorry, couldnt resist ) ...

Christian
matroska project admin

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