{"id":353,"date":"2003-12-03T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/free_software\/politics\/democracy_now_in_ogg.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"democracy_now_in_ogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2003\/12\/03\/democracy_now_in_ogg","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Now in Ogg Vorbis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/democracynow.org\" title=\"Democracy Now!: radio and TV news\">Democracy Now!<\/a><a class=\"webcache\" title=\"Locally Cached Version\" href=\"\/adam\/cache\/free_software\/democracy_now_in_ogg.txt\/retrieve\/http:\/\/democracynow.org\">&#183;<\/a>, my favorite radio news program, is now <a href=\"http:\/\/democracynow.org\/streampage.pl\" title=\"Democracy Now!: radio and TV news\">providing their show in downloadable Ogg Vorbis format<\/a><a class=\"webcache\" title=\"Locally Cached Version\" href=\"\/adam\/cache\/free_software\/democracy_now_in_ogg.txt\/retrieve\/http:\/\/democracynow.org\/streampage.pl\">&#183;<\/a>. This solves two problems: (1) previously they only provided proprietary Real Audio or MP3 format, and (2) you had to do a little hacking to download the show rather than listen to it streaming. It makes imminent sense to allow people to download the full show and in a free format, particularly since the show is noncommercial\/nonprofit. They&#8217;re even using the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\" title=\"Internet Archive\">Internet Archive<\/a><a class=\"webcache\" title=\"Locally Cached Version\" href=\"\/adam\/cache\/free_software\/democracy_now_in_ogg.txt\/retrieve\/http:\/\/archive.org\">&#183;<\/a> to serve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/audio\/collection.php?collection=democracy_now\" title=\"Internet Archive: Please specify collection\">high quality archives of past episodes<\/a>. Now I can copy the show in Ogg Vorbis format onto my <a href=\"http:\/\/neurosaudio.com\" title=\"Neuros MP3 Digital Audio Computer\">portable Neuros audio player<\/a><a class=\"webcache\" title=\"Locally Cached Version\" href=\"\/adam\/cache\/free_software\/democracy_now_in_ogg.txt\/retrieve\/http:\/\/neurosaudio.com\">&#183;<\/a> and listen to it anywhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Now!&#183;, my favorite radio news program, is now providing their show in downloadable Ogg Vorbis format&#183;. This solves two problems: (1) previously they only provided proprietary Real Audio or MP3 format, and (2) you had to do a little hacking to download the show rather than listen to it streaming. It makes imminent sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}