How to convert ogg files to mp3

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Fri Feb 16 15:56:36 UTC 2007


Today Ian Malone did spake thusly:

> On 16/02/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16/02/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
>> > Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:
>> >
>
>> > > My first
>> > > portable mp3 player (SA-1 series) wouldn't play ogg, and neither does
>> > > my current (Nokia 6280, playing double duty as a telephone).
>> >
>> > I'd not use a phone for a music player. Terrible snr and "sorry I missed
>> > your call, I've been listening to mp3s all day" put me off...that and 
>> lack
>> > of standard headphones support - tho I understand you can get
>> > converters...No 6280 ogg support, but newer phones (N70/71) can support
>> > it...
>> 
>> N70 supports ogg? Good to know. I've written Nokia about lack of ogg
>> support, you know. I'm rather vocal in that regard.
>> 
>
> Not natively last time I checked, there is an OSS Symbian app to do this;
> <http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/> which is supposed to run pretty
> well on the N70 (not having one I can't try).
>
> Ogg/Vorbis support is becoming more widespread among standalone
> players, but phones are still lagging behind if you don't want a brick.

Yeah, the operative word in that sentence was "can" :P

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