[Wikipedia-l] Links to sound

[Brion VIBBER]

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lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
>>Try: [[Media:Morepork.ra|Sound of a morepork]]
> 
> 
> I don't think it's appropriate to put Realaudio on Wikipedia.
> The only sound format that is readily usable by freely-available
> software on multiple platforms and that is compressed for Web
> transfer is Ogg Vorbis.  Especially now that they've released
> 1.0, I see no reason to use anything else.
> 
> The software already semi-enforces this by accepting ".ogg"
> files without complaint while it warns about other extensions.
> 
> That's also one reason I haven't chosen to document the "media:"
> feature yet--I wanted to get some consensus about its appropriate
> use, and maybe do it differently.