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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:50:21 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De (Roland Jesse)
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Napster client that is capable of handling vorbis (ogg) files
Message-ID:  <200010120050.RAA10991@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <0vsnq3trlm.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> from "Roland Jesse" at Oct 11, 2000 03:49:57 PM

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> 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
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