I downloaded Limewire for the first time about 30 minutes ago.
When I do an Audio search all I see is MP3 files.

Does the Audio search also look for OGG files ?

Are there plans to add an OGG player ?
......... Vince

LimeWire will be displaying ogg files, too, when it encounters any.

Very few people are willing to switch from mp3 to ogg so you won't find many ogg files.

An ogg player probably won't be added in the near future.

What are OGG files? How do they differ from mp3's? I've never heard of them...

http://www.vorbis.com/
http://support.bbc.co.uk/ogg/
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/index.html

Thanks

Given that:

a) Java code for playing OGG is freely available.
b) OGG format is royalty free.
c) Real Player and broadcasting companies like the BBC will be doing their best to bring OGG into the mainstream

Is Krieger88 right when he/she says
"An ogg player probably won't be added in the near future" ?
............ Vince

Krieger88 is 'in the loop' in a way I am not so I would take seriously his/her comment - a few thoughts though

if there were sufficient call for an ogg player my bet is evelopers would respond to demand - but there just arn't that many ogg files visable during searches (almost none in fact) - which raises another interesting point

everyone knows the mp3 format is not actually the best of the available formats in terms of audio quality but for a bunch of reasons its the mp3 format that consumers have embraced (similar to the way VHS was embraced over the higher quality BETA video format) - but - given that other formats like a2b and liquid audio etc are/were so often used by mainstream download sites its surprising how few of those files/formats are swilling around the gnutella network - maybe its just that mp3 ripping, sharing and playing is so easy and widespread that the mp3 'market share' forces everthing else to the fringe of the fringe

Of course the LimeWire devs are the only ones who can tell for sure, but the current focus of the LimeWire developers seems to be improving the overall network performance.

Some of their current projects include bandwidth saving udp-replies, queueing support, gwebcache support... The mediaplayer has just been updated, but they only switched to a newer version of their mp3 library.

is there a way to search under audio for file type .ogg ?

Audio searches will return ogg files if found. If you want to search for ogg files exclusively, add "ogg" to the query.