[vorbis] Winamp support at last!

[Patrick Masters]

Vorbis will have a hard time gainign mainstream support until there is a
simple one click way to burn audio cds from it. That is what helped mp3 boom
the way it did. Many would download from napster and make their own cds.
With Vorbis, you have to decode to wav and then burn and most dont care
enough to take the extra step.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vorbis at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis at xiph.org]On Behalf Of
Erik Fuller
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 4:48 PM
To: vorbis at xiph.org
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Winamp support at last!

<p>> I've just spotted that the latest version of Winamp (v2.80) has support
> built in (not requiring the plugin to be installed) at last. At least
> according the the "new features" section.

Yes, I've already upgraded my version :-)

Also, it seems the Ogg Vorbis support is a newer version of the popular
plugin from http://www.blorp.com/~peter.

I think this is a very big step towards bringing Ogg Vorbis to the
mainstream. People who have never heard of the codec before will wonder
about this
extra feature and might be inclined to learn more about it. And simply not
having to find and download an appropriate plugin will motivate more people
to try
out Vorbis.


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