Playing MP3s

[Robin Laing]

Temlakos wrote:
> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 
>>
>>    So, why is it that I can not play an MP3 through any of the KDE 
>> audio players that come installed 9with you install the KDE stuff) and 
>> yet when I manually compiled and installed XMMS, I can play them just 
>> fine?
>>
> 

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> Temlakos
> 

Temlakos,

Good description.  Very good.

I rip my CD's to flac which is a lossless format.  Then I use 
soundconverter (Dries) to convert to ogg for playing on my iRiver. 
After testing, I found that ogg or mp3 compression at high quality 
creates files that are very similar in size.

-- 
Robin Laing