On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:38 pm, T. Early posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM


"m II" wrote in message
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uncle arnie wrote:

Good news for those of who use open source products like Linux. I
like Xmms
for ogg. Very fast. And free.


It has many advantages in compression/quality too..



http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp


I've been trying to discern differences on my portable between Ogg at
a fairly high sampling rate and mp3 music files, but haven't been able
to do so. Tin ear, no doubt.

What I notice is faster audio start-up, and no breaks in the stream when
listening on the laptop using a wireless connection to hi-speed internet.