searching for OGG
 

I downloaded Limewire for the first time about 30 minutes ago.
When I do an Audio search all I see is MP3 files.

Does the Audio search also look for OGG files ?

Are there plans to add an OGG player ?
......... Vince

LimeWire will be displaying ogg files, too, when it encounters any.

Very few people are willing to switch from mp3 to ogg so you won't find many ogg files.

An ogg player probably won't be added in the near future.

What are OGG files? How do they differ from mp3's? I've never heard of them...

http://www.vorbis.com/
http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/index.html

Thanks :D

Given that:

a) Java code for playing OGG is freely available.
b) OGG format is royalty free.
c) Real Player and broadcasting companies like the BBC will be doing their best to bring OGG into the mainstream

Is Krieger88 right when he/she says
"An ogg player probably won't be added in the near future" ?
............ Vince

Krieger88 is 'in the loop' in a way I am not so I would take seriously his/her comment - a few thoughts though

if there were sufficient call for an ogg player my bet is evelopers would respond to demand - but there just arn't that many ogg files visable during searches (almost none in fact) - which raises another interesting point

everyone knows the mp3 format is not actually the best of the available formats in terms of audio quality but for a bunch of reasons its the mp3 format that consumers have embraced (similar to the way VHS was embraced over the higher quality BETA video format) - but - given that other formats like a2b and liquid audio etc are/were so often used by mainstream download sites its surprising how few of those files/formats are swilling around the gnutella network - maybe its just that mp3 ripping, sharing and playing is so easy and widespread that the mp3 'market share' forces everthing else to the fringe of the fringe

Of course the LimeWire devs are the only ones who can tell for sure, but the current focus of the LimeWire developers seems to be improving the overall network performance.

Some of their current projects include bandwidth saving udp-replies, queueing support, gwebcache support... The mediaplayer has just been updated, but they only switched to a newer version of their mp3 library.

ogg files
 

is there a way to search under audio for file type .ogg ?

Audio searches will return ogg files if found. If you want to search for ogg files exclusively, add "ogg" to the query.

searching for ogg
 

I would dearly like to see LimeWire's search gain enough smarts to block out all but the required file type. i.e. select file type=ogg and get only ogg files come back.

If the player could understand ogg as well that would be icing on the cake.

I am well aware that there is not much ogg out there but if respected applications like LimeWire gave it the support it deserves, less people would shun it or mistake it for a nasty disease.

Add "File Type" to "More Search Options"
 

I'll second that request, to be able to add "File Type" to the search request (under more search options). I was wondering whether LimeWire was searching for just MP3 files while performing an audio search.

Actually, it'd be nice to know exactly what file types LW will return when searching, or to specify the default file types for the various default searches.

Keep up the great work!

a workaround is to add .ogg to the search terms and use the "Any Type" search.

The filters are planned for the future (see here

Can't install 3.9.1
 

Ahhh ... no wonder I'm not experiencing such joys. I tried installing 3.9.1Pb and was told that the installation can't proceed because the installer can't find the LimeWire.msi file to un-install my current (3.8.6P) version of LW. See my post on that subject.

It's nice that the LW folks are finally including a quasi-changelog with each new version; it'd be better yet if an historic changelog could be included with each release (e.g., most programs would have a history.txt or changelog.txt file included with the distro).