How to convert ogg files to mp3

[Les]

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:53 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On 2/16/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
> > Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:
> > > Also, hardware support for ogg is almost non-existant.
> > WAS non existant. I've had a Rio Karma for years that plays oggs tho
> 
> I was hopeful that ogg was gaining acceptance too but that hope was
> squashed this past Christmas which shopping for a digital music
> player.
> 
> It appears that Microsoft's new "Plays for Sure" is making sure that
> player no longer support oggs and no longer are accessible via USB
> Mass Storage but rather the more awkward MTP. I had a heck of a time
> trying to find a product in one of the main electronics stores that
> had ogg support and acted like a UMS drive.
> 
> In the end, after a fair amount of research and hunting around, I
> found one of the last iRiver T30s available. Unfortunately, the
> firmware installer that was supposed to revert the T30 back to a UMS
> device so that it could used on an OS other than XP, needed XP to run.
> When I found an XP box to run it on, it wouldn't work. I had to return
> it and buy a non-ogg Creative that acted like a UMS drive.
> 
> So the moral of the story is, while ogg compatibility *was* gaining
> more acceptance in the hardware player world, they are no longer due
> to "Plays for Sure". It makes me sad. I suppose some players are still
> available by ordering online ... but good luck finding one in the
> local electronics store.
> 
> Ref:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
> 
> /Mike
> 
Just be patient, with the new switches in the windows stuff, plays for
sure will eventually be plays not at all.

Regards,
Les H