[bookport] Re: Enhancements to Bookport Device
- From: MarlainaLieberg <marlaina@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:57:59 -0800
Hi James! I surely hope you are correct, I'd so like to be wrong on this one!
SMILES!
Marlaina
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 06:55:11 -0000
>Subject: [bookport] Re: Enhancements to Bookport Device
>Hi,
>I don't see that mp3s are on the way out at all. After all, mp3 is a
>standardised format, ogg vorbous is a lot more difficult to implement. they
>have got it all wrong with the quality settings and such. In any case, even
>the BBC do mp3 cds and I don't see them switching to OGG because people play
>mp3s on cd players, computers and dvd players.
>Best
>-James-
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "MarlainaLieberg" <marlaina@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:14 AM
>Subject: [bookport] Re: Enhancements to Bookport Device
>> It would be great if we could have ogg as well, saving lots of time in the
>> conversion between ogg to mp3withoutahaving to use a third party software.
>> I do think mp3 is on the way out, but it'll take a while I am sure!
>> Marlaine
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx
>>>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:52:35 -0500
>>>Subject: [bookport] Re: Enhancements to Bookport Device
>>>We have done some investigation into the ogg format, but we do not have a
>>>=
>>>date or even a commitment to do it, although I suspect we will at some =
>>>point.
>>>>>> Kwatson@xxxxxxxxxxx Sunday, December 05, 2004 2:44:23 PM
>>>Hi List,
>>>As I don't yet have my bp I can't really participate in this=20
>>>discussion. Other than to ask a question of Larry. Has there been=20
>>>anymore discussion about adding the ogg-vorbis capability to the=20
>>>bp? I still intend to purchase it this month, but it would be oh=20
>>>so nice not to have to convert all my ogg files to mp3.
>>>And as an aside, Scott Howell if you are still reading this list,=20
>>>please send me your email address. lnxrx is dead and I don't have=20
>>>your current one.
>>>--=20
>>>Keith Watson
>>>kwatson@xxxxxxxxxxx=20
>>>Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant
>>>but those with illusions of knowledge. - B. Alan Wallace
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