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Re:"I closed MPEG on 2 Jun '20 when I left because obscure f... by darkwater on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:56AM (#44825336)
Pre-Spotify (and pre-iPod) there were plenty of cheap MP3 players that also supported Ogg Vorbis. I owned one, for example. Obviously MP3 was THE standard, but Vorbis reached a good adoption HW wise (basically because it was free as in beer to implement)
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Re:"I closed MPEG on 2 Jun '20 when I left because obscure f... by scott_w on Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:30AM (#44825777)
I also owned one but I had to look for it. It certainly wasn’t “widely supported.”
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Re:"I closed MPEG on 2 Jun '20 when I left because obscure f... by darkwater on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:09PM (#44826378)
Have a look at audio hardware from 10-15 ago (so long after the mp3 player wave ended in first world countries) but basically everything that plays mp3 plays ogg vorbis as well.
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Re:"I closed MPEG on 2 Jun '20 when I left because obscure f... by scott_w on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:43AM (#44833494)
So after it became relevant?
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