daihard | # 1 | 2007-08-07, 01:00 | Report

Hi.

I am wondering if there's any way to add Ogg-Vorbis (.ogg) support to the built-in Media Player?

Most of my music files are in MP3, but I also have a small collection of OGG files that I'd like to be able to listen to on my N800.

Honestly, I find it ridiculous that the Linux-based N800 does not support Ogg-Vorbis. If nothing can be done about it now, I at least hope the next version of the OS will be capable of handling OGG file.

TIA,
Dai

skorianez | # 2 | 2007-08-07, 01:26 | Report

I agree with you

Tragos | # 3 | 2007-08-07, 08:09 | Report

This should do the trick for N800: http://ogg.garage.maemo.org/

I have a 770, so I don't know if it really works. On my 770 I use Mogg: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mogg/

fredoll | # 4 | 2007-08-07, 08:21 | Report

You can add ogg support to the system but the media player won't list the .ogg files ...

Tragos | # 5 | 2007-08-07, 13:41 | Report

... so you have to add them to a playlist file manually. I run every now and then this in Xterm:

find /media/mmc1/Music|grep -i "[mp3\|ogg]$" > /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds/mp3.m3u



EDIT: OK, actually I do this using a shell script. And I find it stupid of Nokia that oggs are not supported by default.

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earl00 | # 6 | 2007-08-07, 16:27 | Report

umm... I have a GUI ogg music player for 770/n800 installed.

http://kilikali.garage.maemo.org/

markku | # 7 | 2007-08-07, 16:47 | Report

Kilikali works fine with oggs and with Mediatomb you can stream your oggs from pc to N800 very easy. I think the ogg-vorbis is poorly known, I started using it when I started to use Kubuntu. It is better than MP3 but there's not enough support for it. But my choice is Kilikali and I don't need at this moment another application to run oggs in N800. Try it!

Karel Jansens | # 8 | 2007-08-07, 18:22 | Report

I've been told that the Ogg-Vorbis format is less battery-friendly than MP3, because its higher compression format makes the CPU work harder.

I wonder if that's offset sufficiently by shorter read times?

TA-t3 | # 9 | 2007-08-07, 18:54 | Report

Isn't the real problem that MP3 is handled in the DSP on the N800 while the Ogg-Vorbis (currently) has to be done on the CPU? At least that's how I remember it (although from 770-threads 9 months or so ago)

daihard | # 10 | 2007-08-07, 21:40 | Report

Thanks guys! I will try Kilikali shortly.

I wasn't aware of issues like that with Ogg-Vorbis compression. OTOH, Ogg-Vorbis does yield smaller file size than MP3 to retain the same sound quality so like Karel says it should be a positive factor in reducing power consumption... at least as far as I can see.