Jimmy Wales wrote:
Brion VIBBER wrote:
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.
Can ordinary Windows users, i.e. users who aren't into music and file sharing and the like, use Ogg Vorbis with relative ease?
For example, could my mom, running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, click on an Ogg Vorbis sound and end up happy?
I'm totally in agreement with pushing free software and open standards wherever we can. But I think we at least have to use stuff that Windows people can use.
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Yes, if you have the right plug-ins. There's a Vorbis plug-in for Winamp, and I use that.
Neil