Ogg vorbis for iTunes
Posted by admin, Fri Feb 17 02:59:32 UTC 2006
Well… YAY! When I first made the move to Mac, it was pre-Tiger, and I found an Ogg Vorbis plugin that let me play my Ogg files in iTunes. Then there was the move to Tiger and an upgrade (to QuickTime, I think) rendered the plugin unusable/unstable. I watched for months for an update, and then I gave up. My husband even started the loooong, boring chore of re-ripping our CD’s using iTunes.
Today, someone on a mailing list was talking about Ogg files and iTunes, and I thought… that can’t be right. But I did a quick Google, and discovered this:
Xiph.Org: QuickTime Components
Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is, in short, the solution for Mac and Windows users who want to use Xiph formats in any QuickTime-based application, e.g. playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes.Works like I charm. I just did a “File | Add to Library” in iTunes, and pointed at one of my Ogg albums, and it copied the files, and imported most of the metadata, too. No album art, and no track numbers, but I’m not going to complain.
