From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 11 17:50:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092B137B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA27010; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:50:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA7Aa4Q0; Wed Oct 11 17:50:47 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA10991; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:50:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010120050.RAA10991@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Napster client that is capable of handling vorbis (ogg) files To: jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De (Roland Jesse) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:50:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <0vsnq3trlm.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> from "Roland Jesse" at Oct 11, 2000 03:49:57 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I just checked out ports/audio/vorbis (an open standard, license and > patent free alternative to MP3). Converting some of my mp3 files and > listening to them works like a charme. > > What doesn't seem to work, though, is sharing these files in > napster. At least ports/audio/gnapster only accepts mp3 files. A quick > dig into its source reveals that a patch to make it accept ogg files > too is not trivial. > > Does anyone know of any napster client that is capable of handling > vorbis (.ogg) files? Try GNUtella; it can do files without needing to look at their extension to tell what type they are. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message