Never noticed any slowdown
even on my old AMD 500Mhz machine which played them fine through Winamp. The support on MP3 players is wank though, I think iRiver are still the only ones with support out of the box and apparently that's crap. If I could rip my collection again though I'd do it to MP3.
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boris the spider,
Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:57,
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That would be the main reason for my hypothesis that it slows the fuck out of things.
Because otherwise why would mp3 players not support it when it's open source?
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Jeru War and Piss,
Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:01,
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I've got no idea at all
I did come across some firmware patches for a load of different players that gives them OGG support, though, so it's far from impossible. Doesn't work for mine, unfortunately.
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boris the spider,
Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:07,
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market "penetration"
mp3 was around long long before ogg
and people is used to it, and folk is used to paying and blaa blaa
and if you make a media player these days, it has to play mp3, there's just no way around that everything else is pretty much secondary
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discomeats This canoe,
Sat 26 Apr 2008, 21:20,
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