Ogg Vorbis on Windows Media Player: Ask LiveJournal!

[pne]

I compressed some CDs for Stella into Ogg Vorbis format.

Today she asked me how to play them, and I said that while Windows Media Player is the default media player for Windows, it doesn't support Ogg Vorbis natively, and that I use XMPlay instead.

However, it seems that XMPlay stores the last playlist used globally—so if she plays a directory for one CD, it'll wreck the playlist I use, which is currently not stored since I rely on XMPlay's keeping the last-used playlist around.

So I had a Google search for "windows media player ogg"—and was amused to find the appropriate FAQ on LiveJournal on the second page of search results :)

(Unfortunately, the link to the DirectShow filter didn't work for me since my computer can't connect to www.vorbis.com just now.)

Comments

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

How about Winamp? I'm not sure about older versions, but the one I have now plays oggs just fine.

WinAmp

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, probably, but I'd have to download and install it.

And on my last computer, WinAmp was dog slow to start... on the computer before that, with a previous version, it was quick to start up but needed a plugin to play Ogg Vorbis which WinAmp no longer seemed to supply (since the newest version doesn't need it).

But yeah. That would probably work. Have to see.

Re: WinAmp

[marikochan.livejournal.com]

Hm, strange... I've never had any trouble with startup times, but it might depend on the version/system.