[Wikipedia-l] Links to sound

Wed Jul 24 17:19:44 UTC 2002

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Brion VIBBER wrote:
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>>I don't think it's appropriate to put Realaudio on Wikipedia.
>>The only sound format that is readily usable by freely-available
>>software on multiple platforms and that is compressed for Web
>>transfer is Ogg Vorbis.  Especially now that they've released
>>1.0, I see no reason to use anything else.
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>Can ordinary Windows users, i.e. users who aren't into music and file
>sharing and the like, use Ogg Vorbis with relative ease?
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>For example, could my mom, running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, click
>on an Ogg Vorbis sound and end up happy?
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>I'm totally in agreement with pushing free software and open standards 
>wherever we can.  But I think we at least have to use stuff that Windows
>people can use.
>
>--Jimbo
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Yes, if you have the right plug-ins. There's a Vorbis plug-in for 
Winamp, and I use that.

Neil