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...kbs, 44100 Hz... And this appears to play in most portable players capable of playing mp3's. (ogg vorbis isn't that widely supported, and many portable players don't like frequencies other than 44100 Hz, or bitrates lower than 40 kbs) I am interested in converting these mp3's into spex format to reduce the file size so that these tapes can be downloaded much more easilier over the internet. For the how-to's for the users, I am primarily interested encouraging users to use Winamp for windows, and XMMS for linux... (I don't know what to recomment for Macintosh) On of the...

...standard OGG codecs (Vorbis, Speex, Flac, Theora...), or it can't. If it can, it doesn't need a plethora of file extensions to do so. That information is (or certainly should be!!) encapsulated into the OGG header as some sort of descriptor, ala Quicktime & AVI ("VORB", "SPEX", "FLAC", "THEO"). The point of a format like OGG is to encapsulate these issues into the format; wrangling that info out to the file extension seems just plain wrong, especially if you're not going to have a different MIME type for each (ie a Vorbis player, a Speex pl...

...standard OGG codecs (Vorbis, Speex, Flac, Theora...), or it can't. If it can, it doesn't need a plethora of file extensions to do so. That information is (or certainly should be!!) encapsulated into the OGG header as some sort of descriptor, ala Quicktime & AVI ("VORB", "SPEX", "FLAC", "THEO"). The point of a format like OGG is to encapsulate these issues into the format; wrangling that info out to the file extension seems just plain wrong, especially if you're not going to have a different MIME type for each (ie a Vorbis player, a Speex pl...