Originally posted by FunkyPoopMonkey@Sun, 2005-01-30 @ 08:31 PM
Anyone who complains about ogg needs to just grow up and get winamp. It comes with the ogg codec, and its still the best music player on the planet, and will probably never be beaten. OGG beats MP3 in all aspects by a clear margin according to tests.
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lol, which planet are you on? LAME alt preset standard (or preset standard for later versions) are clearly as good or better then Vorbis files on the same bitrate, while Musepack is miles better then both.
And Winamp is pretty much dead, its only a matter of time before people will move on to a more advanced player like Foobar. I mean look at it: the default installer for Winamp can't handle half of the modern filetypes, and all the updates it gets are security fixes. None of the original programmers are on the team anymore, and its owned by AOL.
Whileas Foobar has an insane amout of costumizing options, it can play TONS of formats with the default setup (winamp needs additional plugins to do so), has native support for replaygain, and to top that it also uses less cpu time and memory. And it is developed by one of the former Winamp coders.
Using a slightly non-standard codec might actually help the server load a little. Maybe less people will attempt to leech the server dry if it's not all in MP3...
Ogg is almost as known as MP3, so it would help only a little much. AAC is less known, so its either that, or Musepack, or some other, more obscure format.