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

HALL CYRUS P cyrus.hall at Colorado.EDU
Thu Apr 3 22:18:43 PST 2003



I have access to several shoutcast\icecast servers and sadly Real Player
is used more often than not by Windows users.  Winamp probably comes in
second, windows media player third or forth.

Cyrus

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Manuel Lora wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> 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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