[vorbis-dev] Ogg doesn't measure up?!

Manuel Lora vanguardist at cox.net
Thu Apr 3 19:19:27 PST 2003



That would be an interesting survey.

It seemed that winamp was popular around the win98-ish era, but then nowadays, 
people seem to not bother downloading it as much, since they just use WMP as 
it comes with XP.

ml

<p><p>On Thursday 03 April 2003 09:12 pm, Jack Moffitt wrote:
> > Yes, which is a shame, because winamp is the most popular player out
> > there, and the rest might be tempted to follow if they had decided to use
> > Vorbis, thereby becoming leaders and not lame followers.
>
> I truly doubt winamp is the most popular player.  My guess is that it's
> been several years since that was remotely true.  I'm curious what
> people are using these days.  On MacOS X it seems obvious that iTunes is
> the winner.  On Linux probably XMMS.  On Windows I'd put my money on
> Windows Media Player.
>
> Perhaps someone has a pointer to some survey/research in this area that
> is recent.
>
> jack.
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