Vorbis - Dec 2001 - Winamp plugin installation

Okay, this is a nitpick but I gotta do it. First the background: I'm
trying to convince a diehard mp3 coworker of mine to use ogg for his
personal project along side of mp3 and having a tough time. His gripe is
that the default players all support mp3 (Winamp and wma) but not ogg and
that his listeners won't want to go out and install it. We have now set up
a huge shared drive on the office lan to which I copied my library of oggs
ripped from my CD's (for everyone else to enjoy, rather than coming in and
bugging me to borrow a disc). Of course all the Linux workstation folks
are thrilled. However, this fellow went out to download the plugin from
the Winamp site and it wouldn't work.

That was issue number one: any chance of getting the winamp plugins
updated at their site?

So, I said go get them straight from vorbis.com. He fussed so I sat down
at his XP station (of which he's mighty proud of) and clicked the link for
the Winamp plugin. Then we hit issue number two: the installation didn't
update the mime tables or something so double clicking an ogg file would
launch something.

Now, I'm not a windows guy, but is there any chance that the winamp ogg
plugin can be set up to take over the filetype and launch when double
clicked? The fact that it didn't caused him much chest puffing about how
bad ogg is that it doesn't do that. Frankly, telling it manually to use
winamp to always launch that file is fine with me, but I'm not your
typical point/click/drool/feed-me-more-crack Windows user. It occurs to me
that this "feature" might help get ogg out their more readily.

Cheers!

Jay


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> That was issue number one: any chance of getting the winamp plugins
> updated at their site?
I don't know what their problem is, but they can never keep any urls
straight.  Add to that the fact that about 5 different plugins exist,
and you have the recipe for a nice mess.  The winamp guys did develop a
plugin, but the easiest way to get it is not an winamp.com, but at
http://www.blorp.com/~peter/.

Here's a direct link (which has also been posted to this list many times
before and is the one given on the vorbis.com windows download page):
http://www.blorp.com/~peter/zips/in_vorbis.exe
> So, I said go get them straight from vorbis.com. He fussed so I sat down
> at his XP station (of which he's mighty proud of) and clicked the link
for
> the Winamp plugin. Then we hit issue number two: the installation
didn't
> update the mime tables or something so double clicking an ogg file would
> launch something.
Winamp doesn't eat up the file extensions just by installing the plugin.
YOu have to tell winamp to do that, just like you have to tell winamp to
do MP3 when you install it.

Just go into the File->Options->File Types, and highlight ogg.  That
should be all their is too it.  At this point there shouldn't be much
difference to your friend whether a file is ogg or mp3.  He will just
notice that music he gets from you will sound way better.

jack.

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