Ogg playing on iPod touch

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Ogg playing on iPod touch

Hi,
I've recently bought an iPod touch and was wondering if there is any possibility to play OGG-files on my iPod (i haven't tried flac yet)? I now I can convert my OGG-files to aac, but I'm very reluctant to convert my whole collection, as this is a conversion between two lossy formats with different codecs, resulting in an even more degraded quality :/

Any ideas?
Thanks a lot

iPod touch, iPhone OS 3.1.2

Posted on Nov 2, 2009 12:44 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 2, 2009 1:58 PM in response to kazamatzuri

you can make requests here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html

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Answer 2

Nov 2, 2009 1:42 PM in response to kazamatzuri

from the iPod touch tech specifications:

Audio formats supported: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

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kazamatzuri Author

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Nov 2, 2009 1:46 PM in response to Anna Sandham

I am aware of the specs. However I think it's save to say, that the hardware is fast enough to play about anything. So this there is a software limit to keep me from playing oggs and not a hardware limit. So I don't quite understand the restrictions :/
Does anyone maybe know of an app that can play ogg?

greets

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Answer 4

Nov 2, 2009 1:49 PM in response to kazamatzuri

apple decided which formats they supported, it's down to them really. to be fair, i've never heard of ogg files, so it obviously isn't too common, which is maybe why they didn't bother making it compatible.

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kazamatzuri Author

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Nov 2, 2009 1:53 PM in response to Anna Sandham

Ah well. Maybe if enough users asked for it, they could just allow it...
check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis
tx anyways

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kazamatzuri Author

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Nov 2, 2009 2:07 PM in response to Anna Sandham

Thanks!
I will go and ask there.

greetings

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