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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > Not a skip yet, in any format.
>
> Wow. Good connection?
49333 this evening, my record, but the 42000 earlier this afternoon did 
not skip either.  It must be the cache.

> > I think Mplayer also does OGG but stations which broadcast that
> > also broadcast some other format.  Is there some advantage to OGG
> > over MP3?
>
> It handles Ogg files, both Vorbis (musical audio) and Theora (video).
> Vorbis appears in roughly 90+% of all .ogg files. There are other
> Ogg formats, too, but they are rare. If you find a FLAC or Speex file,
> you will need the specialized players.

My question was, why someone would broadcast in MP3 and also OGG - does 
OGG have some advantage, better compression or something?
> > Despite the big dump file, this is infinitely nicer to use than
> > Realaudio or Xine.
>
> Good.
>
> David