November 12th, 2005
Ripped a Bon Jovi CD under Slackware with Grip. It was easy enough, but there I was today doing some Windows stuff and I felt in a rockish kind of mood. Unfortunately Windows Media Player seems to support every format under the sun except from Ogg Vorbis. There are numerous benefits from using this seemingly awkward format: one that it uses better compression than .mp3 so doesn’t loose as much quality. Oh, and if you’re part of a band you’ll be wanting to encode in Ogg Vorbis so that you avoid the trouble of having to pay for .mp3 licensing.
However there is a codec out there. A simple install, and you can play .oggs with Windows Media Player. Great!
November 12th, 2005 at 9:35 pm
there’s such a filename as ogg? that sounds like a neandertholic man-name. Very amusing.
November 13th, 2005 at 12:47 am
OGG is awesome. Lovely thing too you can get OGG Theora and watch a video stream also.
Eww. Windows Media Player. Did you know that it sends a list of everything you play back to MS which they can analyse and then sell to various companies as consumer information?
Btw, if you want to rip using KDE, grab Konqueror, get to your music CD and then you’ll find the folders “CDA”, “OGG”, MP3″ and “FLAC”, which you just enter and then select to copy those files to wherever on your HD. Handy thing too it checks the CDDB and grabs those info tags.
Cheers,
Pascal Klein
PS. I ought to be back blogging soon. I’m trying to isolate my problem, and I think it’s either an accidental blocking from the hosting server or my ISP’s DNS cache is having some problems. Either way, I hope to be back soon.
November 13th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
Yes, I was trying to slip in a Neanderthal joke in, but the opportunity didn’t arise.
If anyone deserves a .wordpress.com address, you do Pascal! Good to hear you’ll be back soon.
November 13th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
Wait a minute… do you want a wordpress.com blog?
Could probably get wombat.wordpress.com.
November 13th, 2005 at 9:09 pm
way to go… I’ve got an invitation left on wordpress… however, I don’t use it as a blog very often because I’m depressed over the fact that I can’t totally customize the layout like I can on my blogger blog.
Yikes.
November 14th, 2005 at 9:14 am
I’ve received your email, but in case some other people saw this and are wondering: maybe. I actually run Drupal, a content management system on wombat.nuxified.com, and would prefer it to be my ‘personal space’, but after seeing the success and use a blog like ubuntu.wordpress.com serves to the community I have come to consider the idea of another blog specifically for one subject.
Having a wordpress.com blog for it would be kinda dandy, simply because I wouldn’t need to find the webspace, or the (sub)domain and so forth.
Since it would not become my personal space, the blog would serve the purpose of making/creating or bringing news about one or 2 subjects. Either way, having help for that would be awesome…
…I think I need to consider the entire thing. The other idea would be for me to pass it on (:P). I can think of one or two friends who would love the opportunity to have a WP blog.
What do you think guys?
Regards,
Pascal
November 14th, 2005 at 10:34 am
Sent another email
December 1st, 2005 at 10:44 am
Funky Music
October 8th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
[…] For those interested I encoded the Front Row episode he was on as a downloadable file. It’s encoded in the speex format (which is best for speech) and requires you to have the codecs on your system. If you’re using Windows Media, you’ll be interested in my ogg for Windows Media post as the installation package also includes the speex codec. […]