What a piece of crap. Unfortunately, I’m stuck with it; I’m not allowed to install anything else on this PC.
Normally, I’d just bring my MiniDisc player or Zaurus to work, but my new job won’t allow me to use headphones. So I burned an mp3 CD to use in WMP on the PC.
Let me clarify: I re-encoded all the 128kbs nominal VBR Ogg Vorbis files on my PC as VBR mp3s, and burned them to a CD. God forbid MS would fucking support an obviously superior format like ogg. To all the people who still rip to mp3: get with the fucking times, assholes.
Anyway, is it just me, or is does Windows Media Player not support VBR? It’s showing constant, really high bitrates, and playing the files at about 1.5 times the speed.
I encoded the files with the latest LAME, compiled myself. They play fine in fucking XMMS. And Windows is supposed to be easier than Linux? What the hell gives?
Yeah, I know this is technically a GQ, but I wanted to use the motherfucking cuss words. Not to mention the potential for a flame war from the inbreds who actually like WMP or the gluesniffing drool monkeys who think that MP3 is better than Ogg. Deal.
Okay… why you’d want a blowjob from a program that can easily stop in the middle, throw up an error message that Windows Media Player had an exception fault at 8803:22 in swallow.dll, and then keep your dick trapped until a reboot… well, I don’t see the fun in it.
I listen to VBR MP3s and WMFs all day long with Media Player 9, with no problem. And, I have some VBR Ogg files that work fine (not many, admittedly). Earlier versions had a problem with time display on VBR MP3s, but that’s fixed in the current version and playback was never affected.
I’ve said it before and don’t really mind saying it again…I have NEVER had a problem with Win98 that I didn’t cause in the first place. Yeah, it might be as simple as just upgrading the damn thing but I haven’t run into that problem in a few years.
Until I can play Ogg Vorbis files in my car stereo, DVD player, PDA, and portable CD player, I’m sticking with MP3. And unless those devices can magically upgrade themselves through the aether, that’s gonna be a long fucking time.
I agree, WMP sucks ass. Are you literally locked out from running all programs except those already installed? If not, you could try burning an Ogg-playing media player on the cd-rom itself, you pretentious penguinhead.
Yeah, I’m sure that the effort was well worth it to listen to the vast difference in sound quality that you get when you play them on the pizza-box cardboard speakers that you probably have at your workstation. :rolleyes:
9.000.00.00.0.00.0… something on 2K. I did most of the encoding like this:
oggdec *ogg
./mlame -r -o “-h” *wav
neuroman: it may very well come down to that. I’ll have to do a bit of research as to the lightest weight standalone exe player I can find.
Mr2001: I can give you one outta four: my Zaurus, and possibly the Ipaq. Granted, there is a distinct lack of harware out there, but it’s not the fault of the format, it’s the fault of the hardware manufacturers. Well, there is the Neuros, and Frontier will have a slam-dunk portable with the next firmware for the Nex series: CompactFlash-based memory and ogg playback for less than a hundred bucks. I’m getting one as soon as they release the upgrade.
Tars: The problem isn’t a lack of media players, it’s a lack of ogg playback in Windows Media Player. Hell, it’s not even that: it’s WMP’s inability to play my perfectly valid mp3 files properly. My employer won’t let me install anything beyond what comes with Windows. So even if I were to write my own player, it’s wouldn’t do me a lick of good. Though I’m sure I could get special dispensation from IS in good time, I’m new here, and it’ll take awhile.
sailor: Actually, I studied in the Fred Phelps School of Open Source Evangelism.
In truth, I’m a pretty mild open source advocate, but only in situations where I think the solution is appropriate. I’m not gonna try and wean the poor misguided slobs from the Bill’s swollen teat unless they ask me to. I’m not inclined to do a “Hah-ha!” ala Nelson Muntz at the latest MS fuckup, because I’m well aware of all the patches I should really get around to downloading for my SuSE box.
Which is why I think I get all the more bombastic on those occasions where Windows fucks me up.
I could see bitching about programs on a computer you actually own, but isn’t it the company’s, and aren’t you supposed to work and not play music? Excuse me if I read your post the wrong way.
You want evil? RealfuckingPlayer is evil. I delete it out of my startup constantly, but every time the goddamn piece of shit starts, it has to write itself back in.