CBC Radio testing audio streaming in Ogg Vorbis format
 

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is currently testing the
streaming of Ogg Vorbis, an open, free audio codec. The CBC Radio services
are normally streamed in Windows Media format, but a test stream of CBC
Radio One in Ogg format is being operated. Ogg Vorbis is a new audio
compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store
and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital audio
formats. It is different from these other formats because it is completely
free, open, and unpatented. CBC recommends Windows users to download Winamp
5 which is free and copes with Ogg.

http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/

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

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:08 pm, Mike Terry posted
to rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is currently testing the
streaming of Ogg Vorbis, an open, free audio codec. The CBC Radio services
are normally streamed in Windows Media format, but a test stream of CBC
Radio One in Ogg format is being operated. Ogg Vorbis is a new audio
compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to
store and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital
audio formats. It is different from these other formats because it is
completely free, open, and unpatented. CBC recommends Windows users to
download Winamp 5 which is free and copes with Ogg.

http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/

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





mike

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:08:59 +0000 (UTC), "Mike Terry"
wrote:

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is currently testing the
streaming of Ogg Vorbis, an open, free audio codec. The CBC Radio services
are normally streamed in Windows Media format, but a test stream of CBC
Radio One in Ogg format is being operated. Ogg Vorbis is a new audio
compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store
and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital audio
formats. It is different from these other formats because it is completely
free, open, and unpatented. CBC recommends Windows users to download Winamp
5 which is free and copes with Ogg.

http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/

Per a posting in the CBC n.g., they also have added a few local
outlets to their Windows Media streaming and now have both 16k and 32k
feeds so people on a slow dial-up won't keep rebuffering.

http://www.cbc.ca/audio.html

"m II" wrote in message
news:nIhid.49902$E93.15072@clgrps12...
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.

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


"m II" wrote in message
news:nIhid.49902$E93.15072@clgrps12...
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.

T. Early wrote:

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.


Eh? You'll have to speak up, sonny...




geezer mike

In article ,
"Mike Terry" wrote:

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is currently testing the
streaming of Ogg Vorbis, an open, free audio codec. The CBC Radio services
are normally streamed in Windows Media format, but a test stream of CBC
Radio One in Ogg format is being operated. Ogg Vorbis is a new audio
compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store
and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital audio
formats. It is different from these other formats because it is completely
free, open, and unpatented. CBC recommends Windows users to download Winamp
5 which is free and copes with Ogg.

Is there a Mac (OS-X) client for this?

--
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH

Larry Weil wrote:

Is there a Mac (OS-X) client for this?


These may provide a starting point.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...21103065300430
http://mac.tucows.gwi.net/preview/206411.html

You should be able to compile the source code if all else fails...




mike