"...influence that could be wielded with manufacturers such as Apple to encourage them to add Ogg support to their players?"
Indirectly, yes. Same goes for the entire free software movement. Products follow consumer demand.
Directly, I think the issue is not within the Wikimedia Foundation's immediate purview. Just my thoughts.
-George [[User:GChriss]]
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:31:18 -0500 English Wikipedia wrote:
On 4 Jan 2007 at 16:19, Matt R matt_crypto@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:
With Wikipedia's large current degree of popularity, doesn't it have any influence that could be wielded with manufacturers such as Apple to encourage them to add Ogg support to their players?