{"id":340,"date":"2008-04-30T13:04:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T12:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2008-04-30T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:48:41","slug":"playogg-without-rockbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/playogg-without-rockbox\/","title":{"rendered":"playogg without Rockbox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Play ogg!\" href=\"http:\/\/playogg.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/resources\/formats\/ogg_data\/play_ogg_large.png\" alt=\"playogg logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a>I find it noteworthy that the FSF runs a campaign they call <a href=\"http:\/\/playogg.org\/\">playogg<\/a> in which they detail the importance and stuff why people should avoid non-free formats and instead use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ogg\">Ogg  Vorbis<\/a> in preference to mp3 for example.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, they document a number of alternatives for Mac users, for Windows users etc on the front page, but there&#8217;s not a single word of advice for people with portable music players. Then again, it is very hard for people to find free software alternatives to their portable music players and FSF being so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/about\/what-is-free-software\">very anti-closed <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-193 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 10px; float: left;\" title=\"Rockbox tiny\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/rockbox60.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/about\/what-is-free-software\">source<\/a> this makes me wonder why there&#8217;s no mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\">Rockbox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipodlinux.org\/\">ipodlinux<\/a> or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sansalinux.org\/\">sansalinux<\/a> to be found?<\/p>\n<p>The only place with this info that I could find when following links from their site, was about three clicks away on xiph.org&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xiph.org\/index.php\/PortablePlayers\">PortablePlayers<\/a> wiki page but the majority of the stuff mentioned there is non-free&#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it noteworthy that the FSF runs a campaign they call playogg in which they detail the importance and stuff why people should avoid non-free formats and instead use Ogg Vorbis in preference to mp3 for example. Yet, they document a number of alternatives for Mac users, for Windows users etc on the front &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/playogg-without-rockbox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">playogg without Rockbox?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[156,51,154,19,416,155],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-politics","category-rockbox","tag-fsf","tag-mp3","tag-ogg","tag-open-source","tag-rockbox","tag-vorbis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}