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February 28, 2004
Ogg Vorbis direct to audio CD

Making audio CDs from ogg vorbis (and really, why would you want MP3 if you can have ogg?) is a bit of a techy proceedure if you want to do it with completely free tools. Ashampoo is a $29 extractor, burner, converter and editor that happily (and automatically) converts between audio, ogg, MP3, etc. files. Highly rated, though I haven't used it (yet).

Posted by Jonathan at 11:19 AM | Email this entry | Category:
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ok!
That seems to be a nice tool. There is also another tool that you can rip to ogg namely:
RapidRipper http://www.dgpdev.com/rapidripper.htm
Check it! Only $6.99
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Posted by Copy Xbox Games on March 23, 2004 04:57 AM | Permalink to Comment

Why would you want MP3 if you have Ogg? I'm surprised you need to ask: Share-ability. It's not much use to have a superior and free technology if no one else can use it -- it's the same reason OpenOffice.org could not hope to compete until they could reliably import AND export the dominant competitor's formats.

You would not believe the abuse we got for placing May's tracks (www.teledyn.com/fun/keemay) online as Ogg files. Real fierce hate mail, plus several of the download free-music sites (eg download.com) would not let us play without MP3. True, we have also gained some traffic being Ogg-based, but those referrals come from the Vorbis website, or gnomoradio or other very narrowcast special interest domains who are largely pro-Ogg first, music fans second. We get the hits because of the format, not necessarily because of the content itself, which as a songwriter or performer, is not the way you want it.

If you want to be heard, like it or not, with the status quo, it's MP3 or go play with yourself.

Nonetheless, I have chosen to release my symphony as an Ogg file (www.teledyn.com/fun/garym) because it gives me the best sound for the smallest file. When you have a work 50 min long that's unquestionably not intended for mass consumption ;) you want to make it as easy as you can to get the file out and into the soundplayers of anyone who will listen, and thus there was a strong urge to go MP3, but at 75Mb it was way beyond what any free-music site was willing to take. In Ogg, I'm hoping, overcoming the format will be an acceptable price to the fans of experimental composition, and at 35Mb, it halves the bandwidth risk should they decide they'd rather they hadn't :)

Posted by mrG on May 24, 2004 07:21 PM | Permalink to Comment

oops ... sorry for the 404 links there:

those links should read www.teledyn.com/pub/keemay and www.teledyn.com/pub/garym

Posted by mrG on May 24, 2004 07:23 PM | Permalink to Comment

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