Install the Ogg Vorbis Plug-In into Your Sonique MP3 Player
Ogg Vorbis is an open source audio encoding and streaming technology. And since it is still in development, there isn't an actual player for this file type. For now we have to use "plug-ins." In case you haven't had the pleasure, plug-ins are software components that can be added to an existing computer application to make it do something extra that the application alone cannot do. We'd prefer not to have to use plug-ins, but it's par for the course in the wild openly-developed software landscape. And the quicker the software is developed the sooner we'll have nifty clients to use instead of plug-ins. The musicians out there can compare a plug-in to a guitar players "stomp box" distortion pedal or flange pedal. Got it? All righty.
Another minor catch is that there are only 2 plug-ins for the the two most popular MP3 players out there: one for WINamp and one Sonique for Windows.
Step 1 ) If you haven't yet, download the Sonique MP3 player. If you already have Sonique installed on your computer go to Step 2.
a -- A Save window will open. Choose the option "Run this program from its current location."
b -- Choose the Regular installation option.
Step 2 ) Get the Ogg Vorbis plug-in for the Sonique MP3 player.
Step 3 ) Double-click on the "oggsonique.zip" file that you now have on your desktop. You should be looking at this. Highlight the file and hit the Extract button. Then put the file into the plug-ins folder located in the WINamp folder (on your C: drive).
You're ready to rock! Drag and drop that .ogg file that you encoded on to your Sonique MP3 player. It should start playing, and you should notice higher fidelity than if it were playing
an MP3 file. We could not find a way to comfirm a successful installation like WINamp. When it works there should be a streaming message on your player that says "Encoded using L.A.M.E. libvorbis interface." Of course, we got this message when the file itself was playing...Sonique's menu structure can be confusing. If it's too much for you, bail and install WINamp. It's not as fancy, but it works just as well and has some simpler aspects to it.
