[vorbis] How to make Vorbis popular

[MARK JAMES HETHERINGTON]

I figure the best way to make it popular, is to use it! I just rip all
my music to OGGs now, and download as many as I can. If I find an mp3
file that has problems with sync when I try to burn it, I transcode it
to OGG, where I would previously have re-encoded it to mp3. I make the
OGG winamp plugin available prominantly on my web site via a big fat
link. etc etc. 

I'm still very dissapointed the decoder is not included in winamp! is
this going to happen soon?

----- Original Message -----
From: Hongl Lai <hongli at telekabel.nl>
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 7:32 am
Subject: [vorbis] How to make Vorbis popular

> Ogg Vorbis is still not known by the mainstream and not widely used
> these days.
> I've been thinking about this... MP3 is so popular because people can
> download music for free (and thus pirating music).
> I recommend Vorbis to everybody I know, but most of them refuse to 
> eventry it because it's not popular (or because they are hardcore MP3
> zealots), which results in a circle (little people use it because it's
> not popular, but it will not get popular because little people use 
> it).Yet DivX 4.0 (which is only a marketing name, and has nothing 
> to do with
> the "old" DivX), gains popularity day by day, even though it wasn't 
> notused by anybody when it was first released.
> 
> Is the only way for Vorbis to become popular to promote it as a 
> tool for
> music piracy?
> Of course I understand none of the developers want Vorbis to become
> something like that.
> 
> Comments? Flames?
> 
> 
> 
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