Wednesday, November 3, 2004
CBC Radio Now Streaming in OGG Vorbis Format
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 12:00 PM
"CBC Radio, Canada's major national public broadcaster is now streaming in ogg/vorbis. Recently CBC had switched from realmedia streams to windows media streams for their radio broadcasts. After receiving a plethora of complaints, suggesting ogg/vorbis as an alternative, CBC has begun a test ogg stream of the toronto stations. They boast in their ogg FAQ that they're encoding with oddcast and streaming with icecast."
Something smells fishy here. Switching from RealAudio to Windows Media makes sense, because everyone has the Windows Media Player client, but not everyone has or wants to install the RealAudio client. I have nothing against OGG Vorbis, but come on, now in order to listen they're asking people to download and install Winamp 5 in order to listen? How is that possible an improvement? I smell some open source activism here, and when activism flies in the face of logic, it's not a smell I like. :evil:
Something smells fishy here. Switching from RealAudio to Windows Media makes sense, because everyone has the Windows Media Player client, but not everyone has or wants to install the RealAudio client. I have nothing against OGG Vorbis, but come on, now in order to listen they're asking people to download and install Winamp 5 in order to listen? How is that possible an improvement? I smell some open source activism here, and when activism flies in the face of logic, it's not a smell I like. :evil:
