Playing MP3s

[Temlakos]

Robin Laing wrote:
> 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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>  >Snip<
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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.
> 

Thanks for the tip. Thanks also to the poster who reminded me that Ogg 
Vorbis-compatible hardware does exist. In fact, here's an excellent Wiki 
page from Xiph.org:

http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisHardware

Temlakos