playing and ripping, ogg and mp3s?

[Jeff Waugh]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 19:47 -0400, Tony wrote:
> I have tried playing my ogg files with XMMS on my ubuntu installation,
> but it does not appear to work.  I have been able to install Real
> Player and it works O.K. So I would assume my sound card is not the
> issue.  Can someone clearify what software, above the basic ubuntu
> installation, is necessary to play ogg and mp3 files?

Nothing extra required for OGG vorbis playing, perhaps you haven't
configured XMMS to use the esound output plugin?

> What about for ripping CD's to ogg using GRIP?

Don't use GRIP, use Sound Juicer (Applications > Multimedia > Sound
Juicer CD Ripper). It's there by default on your desktop install. :-)
You will be able to do OGG encoding immediately with it.

- Jeff

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