Hurrah for Ogg Vorbis! Hurrah for Auntie!

[ciphergoth]

I'm listening to a music station recommended by zotz, on an open source, non-patent-burdened music format, hurrah!

http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/

From the voice, it could be Elvis Costello, but maybe that's because purplerabbits has been playing a lot of that recently...

http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/

Comments

[babysimon]

So is Radio 6 worth downloading and faffing to listen to?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Given the disparity of our musical tastes, I'm not sure I know, but it's been OK for me so far. I just clicked on the link, selected XMMS as the application to open it with, and it started working.

Actually half the reason I did it was to boost their stats for Ogg listeners, but I've stayed because it sounds pretty decent...

XMMS is reporting consistently over 100 kbps, so this isn't one for modem people.

Steely Dan just finished - didn't like it much, but at least I know what the sound like. Now it's something OKish I don't recognise.

[zotz]

Glad you like it. They are, incidentally, playing Costello quite often at the moment, because he's got a new album out. Quite a good one, according to the reviews.

[skx.livejournal.com]

You don't want to know the hard time I had trying to parse OGG tag information
without libvorbis.

It should be a simple job, but my "solution" is incredably hacky, and makes
me feel unclean... ;)

(Obligatory link).