[WikiEN-l] MP3 & OG

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

There's plenty of conversion software out there that allows you to
make the conversion for such files yourself. Have you googled it?

Mgm

On 1/4/07, Matt R <matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I'd like to download Spoken Wikipedia articles to my MP3 player so I can learn
> stuff without being stuck at a computer. At present I cannot, because my MP3
> player doesn't play Ogg Vorbis, and cannot be made to support it. Further,
> MP3's are not permitted on Wikipedia because of the lack of legal free players:
>
>   http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-July/011514.html
>
> Our policy is motivated correctly: Wikipedia needs to be free, and that
> includes the technology which is required to access it.
>
> However, is there any problem with having a rule along the lines of: "MP3
> format can be used by Wikipedia only in those cases where the same material is
> also available in Ogg in equal or better quality"? That way, Wikipedia audio
> content can always be read by legal free players AND by devices which do not,
> and maybe cannot, support Ogg.
>
> (As usual, feel free to point me to wherever this has been beaten to death
> already, if that's the case)
>
> -- Matt
>
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