Phone Post: Day 1

[unixronin]

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Re: Why "ogg" files...?

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm.... mp3s. Tech thing to download music to and play, maybe? But if so, I don't have one. :-(

That's easy enough. If you're using Windows, I highly reccomend WinAmp (http://www.winamp.com). It's free and will play ogg files :)

For Macintosh, there's MacAmp (http://www.mac.org/audio-video/macamp/) which I'm assuming performs similarly to WinAmp.

Another question.... Why are Alaric's Phone Posts coming through as "ogg" file things? And 3 other LJ users, whom I've listened to, were not?

When you setup phone posting, you can select to either have it post the message as a .wav file or an .ogg file. The advantage to the .ogg file is that it takes up a lot less space and is quicker to download than a .wav file.

Here's a good example. A .wav file of a favorite song of mine is around 50-60 megabytes. An .ogg or .mp3 of that very same song is around 5-6 megabytes. I don't fully understand it myself beyond the whole "Well, the file is smaller" part, and I'd like to think I have a fairly good grasp on techie things.

Re: Why "ogg" files...?

[likefinewine.livejournal.com]

For Macintosh, there's MacAmp which I'm assuming performs similarly to WinAmp.

Have iMac. So, I'd have to download WinAmp, I suppose..... All I do know i have, is iTunes and that's not doing it.

When you setup phone posting, you can select to either have it post the message as a .wav file or an .ogg file.

Ahhhhh, I was right! By simple deduction/common sense! It has to do with something the person [who is making the Phone Post] does. Well, it doesn't help me hear his Phone Post. But I do LOVE getting to the [semi] bottom of a mystery!!! And thank you much, for helping me do it.

I love the way geeks are willing to be helpful on the Net! And don't make we *info challenged* people feel silly. Even if we don't always "get it," a lot of you are willing to try to teach us. :-)

Re: Why "ogg" files...?

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

I don't know if iTunes can play ogg files. A quick search reveals that there is a plugin (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021103065300430) for iTunes that will let it play .ogg files. I'm kind of shooting in the dark here as it's been a long time since I used a Mac. Last time I used one, it was an LC II running OS 7.

Re: Why "ogg" files...?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Capsule summary on that: .WAV is raw uncompressed digital audio, while MP3 or Ogg Vorbis encode the raw sound data, dropping some minor details that the human ear overlooks anyway, in a way that results in typically from 10:1 to 20:1 compression. For a given file size, Ogg Vorbis sounds slightly better than MP3, plus Ogg is not subject to the Frauenhofer MPEG patents.