Ogg support...
Posted Apr 10, 2026 13:52 UTC (Fri) by jzb (editor, #7867)In reply to: Ogg support... by rsidd
Parent article: Ripping CDs and converting audio with fre:ac
Oh, Android-based players certainly exist... plenty of them.
Yes, Android does support Ogg Vorbis, but there are many people who don't use Android. My family fits in that category. My wife and daughter will abandon their iPhones shortly after the heat death of the universe and probably not before that. And, of course, my decision to standardize on MP3 predates 2026 by many, many years; I just happened to write about it now.
The player I was referring to was a sub-$25 MP3 player I picked up to send with my daughter when she went to AmeriCorps in 2024. I preloaded some MicroSD cards with a bunch of playlists I had curated for them over the years. The odds of it being lost or mangled were pretty high, so I figured the cheaper, the better. Ogg support was not a consideration. :-) The previous time she went on a trip, I had to buy new glasses because hers were lost in a body of water in Florida...