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From: Josiah Jenkins 
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Whilst perusing Usenet on Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:17:32 +0000 (UTC), I read
these words from Moog  :

>Josiah Jenkins illuminated the devils arse on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:55:48
>+0000, by typing:
>
>>>Do you really need to transfer your files to .ogg and edit all the tags?
>> 
>> No ! There's no way I ever go through that again ! It took me a whole
>> Winter to rip all my CDs, LPs and some of the Audio Cassettes and
>> 8-track tapes I had and tidy up the ID tags.
>> 
>> (Younger readers will probably ask, 'Wot's an 8-track ?')
>> 
>> I only converted about a dozen tracks from mp3 to ogg. Just so that I
>> have a small selection of various file formats available to see what
>> works and what doesn't.
>
>Aaah. I see. I misunderstood what you wanted. Please ignore.
>
>> I believe that, for instance, .flv is a no-no under Linux.
>
>They work just fine here using the w32codecs from the plf (medibuntu) 
>repositories.

Ta, I'll keep a note of that one.

--jjj
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