[vorbis] Winamp support at last!

[Paul de Weerd]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 06:45:22AM +0800, Jeremy M. Hanrahan wrote:
|  
| > 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.
| > 
| Huh?
| I thought this is what the "mp3" burning programs did too. ?!?
| 
| Don't all formats need to go through the "wav" stage to be burnt on a
| CD?
| How exactly can you get around this with MP3 files?

I think the important issue here is that the tool does it for you,
that you don't have to decode to WAV yourself prior to burning a set
of WAV's to an audio CD. Whether this is done on the fly, with
intermediate files or using smokesignals is irrelevant, IMHO ;)

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd


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