[vorbis] Ogg FLAC

Rik Hemsley rik at kde.org
Tue Oct 16 20:47:48 PDT 2001



#if Jack Moffitt
 
> > I am
> > not too familiar with ogg/vorbis's killer apps right now
> > but I'm assuming that having a lossless codec wrapped
> > in ogg will make it at least slightly easier to add FLAC
> > support to ogg-aware tools.  I just don't know what they
> > are or if there is a demand for it.
> 
> Actually it will currently break them all.  But this is a good thing.
> One more reason to fix that problem :)

Well, I wouldn't say break... my player (squelch) doesn't even _try_ to
play .ogg files that don't include vorbis data. In fact, it doesn't
even allow you to put them in the playlist :) File extensions are
not considered. You can put '.mp3' extensions on your filenames if
you're that twisted.

Rik

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