[Vorbis] Vorbis Players for Windows

[Paul Ellis]

After looking at your site, I think you have a php problem.  It looks
like the download script you have going doesn't return the ogg files
with .ogg extensions.  Although it is correctly being reported as
audio/x-ogg.  Is there some reason you don't just put regular links to
your files?  If you want to track how many people download a file try a
logger like Phlogger (www.phpee.com).  I use it, it is great.  You can
see how I use it at my music site
http://www.ellisfoundation.com/freemusic .  The best way to allow people
to stream music files, IMHO, is to make playlist files (.pls or .m3u)
that reference the files you want to play.  This is how the stream links
are done on my site.  The download links use the download logger from
Phlogger.

I do think there is some problem with the first file on your site, it
was silent.  The rest worked once I added the .ogg extension.  I use
Winamp 5 although Winamp 2 works great as well for Vorbis.  I would say
they are the best players for Win32.  The Ogg Directshow Filters work
fine if you want to play Vorbis files in Windows Media Player (why?) too.

Paul

Daniel Schregenberger wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've recently put a few of my tracks online (http://livenraw.npfdd.ch/
>for those interested; it's a solo-rock-performance by me) and of course
>I've used Vorbis for this.
>Now I had several reports on the topic "How do I play these ogg-things
>on Windows?". I've linked to http://www.vorbis.com/ but apparently this
>is not easy enough.
>One of my friends even told me he tried a couple of players from the
>Software page but had no success. Not with media-player or Winamp2. And
>he's definately more into computers than the average user.
>
>No my question is: isn't there a simpler way to explain these people how
>to get Vorbis running on their computer?
>What page do you refer them to?
>
>The important part here is "simple". The best would probably be a very
>easy integration into MS media-player, but I've been reported trouble
>with the DS-Filters and they seem pretty outdated to me too.
>
>I think it's necessary to make it easy for beginners to play Vorbis
>files, which is apparently not the case at the moment. Not for the
>average windows user at least.
>
>-- Daniel
>
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