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I guess I'm one of those "5" ogg users, although I do have lot's of mp3's. I normally encode all my cd's in flac format for archival purposes and for playing on my SqueezeBox.
When I purchase music from allofmp3 I always encode it in ogg (q7 as well - great minds...) unless it's something really good and it's available in lossless format.
The mp3 I have are from *cough* other sources and I have to agree with the chap extoling the virtues of vorbistags. Tags on oggs (as well as flacs) are much better than ID3v* tags. No matter what player I use, they always (if they support ogg and flac) read the tags perfectly. Contrast this with some mp3's I have that, no matter what I try - stripping them, tagging with different versions, etc - seem to have problems (mangled tags, won't display tags, etc).
Bottom line. Any portable mp3 player I get WILL support OGG.
I guess I'm one of those "5" ogg users, although I do have lot's of mp3's. I normally encode all my cd's in flac format for archival purposes and for playing on my SqueezeBox.
When I purchase music from allofmp3 I always encode it in ogg (q7 as well - great minds...) unless it's something really good and it's available in lossless format.
The mp3 I have are from *cough* other sources and I have to agree with the chap extoling the virtues of vorbistags. Tags on oggs (as well as flacs) are much better than ID3v* tags. No matter what player I use, they always (if they support ogg and flac) read the tags perfectly. Contrast this with some mp3's I have that, no matter what I try - stripping them, tagging with different versions, etc - seem to have problems (mangled tags, won't display tags, etc).
Bottom line. Any portable mp3 player I get WILL support OGG.