pondering buying a Zune

[QueBert]

Years ago when I ripped my 300 CD's to my computer I thought I would be mr uber cool open source supporter and did them all in OGG. This was before portable players or really anything outside of a PC played any sort of digital music. Now I'm basically stuck with thousands of OGG files, there are devices that play them but they seem few and far in between.

Googling I read a few blogs that claim somebody somewhere is working on OGG support for the Zune but has no information about when. I'm definitely not reading anything concrete just that it might be in the works, and might or might not actually come out.

I'm not really excited about converting my OGG files to something the Zune can play, would be easy but don't want to fuck up the quality. I could re-rip some of them, but a lot of my CD's were lost when I moved. Basically I have close to 4000 ogg files and I don't know what to do. I can get a Zune or the Sandisk 8 gig, neither have native OGG support.

anyone know anything about Zune's future 3rd party codec support?

 

[erwos]

I wouldn't bet the farm on getting Ogg Vorbis support for the Zune. You may want to look into some of Cowon's players.

 

[QueBert]

Even with what I was reading that's exactly what I suspected, and if it does happen it'll probably be so far down the road I won't care any more. Thanks for the reply I'll look into the Cowon player and I know a few of the iRivers do OGG too, so at least there are options.

 

[bigrash]

the iriver players are actually really good. I never had a complaint about them

 

[konakona]

Originally posted by: QueBert
Now I'm basically stuck with thousands of OGG files, there are devices that play them but they seem few and far in between.

a bit OT here, but this is why you rip anything in lossless. shoulda teach you a lesson

 

[QueBert]

good lesson, if I had started to rip my stuff recently I would have done just that, but this was yeeears ago, I think aside from maybe straight WAV I don't even remember a lossless format. at the time OGG seemed like a good idea hehe.