[Fsuk-manchester] Ogg Vorbis players (was: DRM: Beginning of the end?)

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 04:12:49PM +0000, Fred Phillips wrote:
> On Wed Jan  7 11:35:08 2009, Steve Hamblett IMAP wrote:
> > Good step in the right direction, although I believe Apple is still 
> > shipping the tunes in its own proprietry format, not MP3, so native MP3 
> > players still won't work here. Is this still a form of DRM?
> 
> If that is the case wouldn’t encoding with Ogg Vorbis or FLAC be
> considered “DRM”? Only a handful of players support them.

The list of portable players at xiph.org[1] seems to be quite a bit more
than a handful.  In addition, Rockbox[2] runs on a good couple of
handfuls more, supports playing Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, and is free
software.

[1]: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers
[2]: http://www.rockbox.org/

Simon
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