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artists could do wonders by allowing them to FREEly encode their songs along with bringing greater usership from their fans.
Artists that aren't talentless or completely obscure who give away song downloads are very rare and don't care about the MP3 vs. OGG issue. How would you convince them to use OGG?
i also believe that if ppl started saturating p2p networks with their ogg files that a greater awareness would surface
RIAA-sponsored crapflooding of p2p has made the networks more resistant to flooding than before.
Basically, all your strategy is annoying people into using new software.
Look, I have currently in iTunes 3000 songs already imported, and 4000 more on my filesystem waiting to be imported. All the songs I have imported have all their metadata filled: Track names, artist names, albums, number of CDs, track number, album artwork, year, genre, lyrics, album artwork, and often a rating. Unlike every other player, that relies on the filesystem and manual playlists, iTunes is a library, a database.
When I plug my iPod, all the highest-rated songs and a manual selection are automatically copied, and changing the rating on the iPod updates iTunes. All that shit is automated.
There are a lot of people like me. How are you going to convince us that OGG is good enough to overshadow all the benefits of iTunes+iPod?
(see also this nice article from another perspective:
http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2005/june/thecatch22of )