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Originally Posted by samjesse
I am under the impression that if the format is MP3, every body can click on the link and hear the audio simply because every body has a a program/plug-in which can play it, but spx or OGG format is not play-able when clicked on it since not common for PC based visitors "like me" to have a program which can open OGG or spx.
in addition, What if they download it. how can they listen to an ogg file? vs. the popular mp3?
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First of all you need a player for your audio files or streams. It could be a standalone player like winamp, aimp, foobar, windows media player, or it could be a player embedded into your browser.
Windows comes with Windows Media Player, so you can play Windows Media files and streams with it without installing anything. You can play OGG, AAC, SPX files with Windows Media Player, but all of these files require a direct show filter to be installed.
MP3 is a proprietary format. Although hardware manufacturers and software vendors need to pay fees to include MP3 support, the format is ubiquitous. Usually you don't need to install anything to play MP3 files, and they are supported by most portable audio players (if not all of them).