Psonar Forums/Feature Requests
OGG support
Gaz Davidson Sep 11, 2009
Most of my CDs have been ripped using Sound Juicer, the default CD ripper for Linux. Because of the MP3 patent situation it compresses to OGG or FLAC, which are free container/compression formats. OGG support would be a really nice addition.
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Hi Gaz,
.ogg support is on the way - we're just waiting for the plugin we use to implement it.
The player should work on linux now too (and we have a linux / mac version of the SongShifter on the way - porting it to Mono.)
Cheers,
Rich
Fantastic news, thanks Rich :)
Let me know as soon as you're ready for testing the player on Linux. I gave it a try last night in Firefox and it still didn't work, couldn't see anything obvious in Firebug but to be honest I didn't know what I was looking for.
Gaz
Hi Gaz,
I updated the site about lunchtime today... test away!
Rich
Sweet! It now works fine in Ubuntu 32-bit, Firefox 3.6.3 with Flash 10.0 r45. Also works in Chrome 5.0.375.55 beta. My home 64-bit Linux desktop is fooked at the moment, so I can't try that.
Loving the mobile player on my Android device, works a charm. Would be awesome if it could be integrated into Android's library, not sure if it's possible to add HTTP links as tunes... I'll try hacking around and see what's possible :)
Great!
We're looking at either implementing a player on the mobile site or passing off a playlist file (pls / m3u, etc.) to the device's native player and having it stream from the site.
Which would you prefer?
We'll also be using the audio capabilities of HTML5 shortly too, for single track plays at the very least (where the device supports it)
Cheers,
Richard
Holy Vorbis, Batman! The OGG tracks on my phone uploaded too, and I can play them on the web. This is fantastic, thank you!
Now I just need to get a new motherboard so I can upload all my CDs :)
Regarding the mobile site, I'm not sure yet, I'd have to try on a few different devices. Android doesn't show the ID3 information of stuff streamed from the web which means there's no album art, libre.fm sync doesn't work and it's not possible to browse the rest of your music while a track is streaming. I'll raise these on Android's bug tracker. My iPhone is back in Southport so I've not tried that yet.
Looks like Android doesn't support m3u playlists with HTTP links in them either, I just tested one and it failed to play it. Found this on their bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7028
Will get back to you with more thoughts on this