Play Ogg!

When I thought about getting my first MP3-player a few years ago, one of the most important features for me was that it supports Ogg Vorbis, the free as in speech competitor to AAC. I was back then (and still am) a proposer off open source where it makes sense , and an open audio format definitely falls in to this category. I had basically my whole music collection archived in this format so it made total sense for me to also want a portable player that supports this format. But only half a year later, my little travel mate died (can't blame it, though) and I had to think through all this again.

This time I had just bought my first Mac and kind of liked that whole seemless-ness you get when sticking with Apple products - it's probably the same feeling you always get when sticking with just one one brand Another problem was, that it seemed to me like I was the only person out there who liked Ogg Vorbis outside of the science and software development community. There were no stores (at least widely acknowledged as being legel) who sold you music in this format.