audio format converter

[uriah heep]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Brian Norman Wootton <
Brian.Meg at btinternet.com> wrote:

> >
> > Even to my 'lossy' hearing, .ogg sounds better than .mp3(or.wma for that
> >
> > matter). If any of my vista/XP email friends want a particular track I
> can
> > always convert before sending so they can play it.
> >
> > No need for that, ogg should be playable also by windows players,
> > after all, it is a free format not difficult to implement as it is
> > well documented.
> >
>
> Miriam
> I emailed a .ogg file to 5 of my acquaintances and not one of them's
> machines
> would play it. Of the two with Macs, one of them volunteered to convert it
> to .mp3,
> other just put up the glad hand. Of the 2 Vista machines and one XP, the 3
> users
> just gave up when WMP gave them an error message. I have a vista laptop and
> an XP
> desktop - neither of them would play the .ogg file directly, I had to
> download
> and install the oggcodecs plugin first. My point being that there are an
> awful lot of
> MS customers out there who wouldn't know an ogg from an egg-cup and
> wouldn't
> thank you for trying to tell them.
> brian
>
> > Your plan sounds good.  One thing to consider is the quality of your
> current
> > and possible future playback equipment.  Test your files with various
> > settings and see if you can hear a difference.  on typical "ear buds" you
> > can get by with very lossy formats but on solid midrange equipment the
> > difference is not trivial.
>
> My wife has a tin ear, so I got rid of my power audio equipment, alas. I do
> use 'earbuds'. But I take your point, I have a large pair of expensive
> Sony ear-phones and I can hear the difference from earbuds  using these.
> brian
>
>
>
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VLC player is available for windows and osx and plays most anything
including ogg so if they can (or will) install a program from the net it
will take of ogg and most anything else they are likely to encounter
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