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Oggplay not working with my 9500
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Posted by: Marvelous7325

I'm trying to install Oggplay on my 9500 and I keep getting a message that says: "Note System: Unable to find the specified object" What should I do about this?

Posted by: firasntr

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Originally Posted by Marvelous7325

I'm trying to install Oggplay on my 9500 and I keep getting a message that says: "Note System: Unable to find the specified object" What should I do about this?

i'm having the same prolem here !!!

Please Marvelous if u had solved this problem since you lasted posted here, then please share the solution.

Posted by: optiontrader

I too have run into this problem when I downloaded and tried running the latest version 1.70. I don't know if you've noticed, but the installer actually says that the version is 1.69 when you are installing the program.

The point is that apparently this latest release wasn't packaged properly. I found a posting on sourceforge.net's forums saying "forgot to update the .pkg file. Sorry about that. Look out for a v1.71 coming in the next few days." However, version 1.71 has not shown up so far.

The solution that worked for me was to download the previous version 1.69 from
OggPlay v. 1.69

It installed fine. I was able to launch the program with no errors. I haven't tried actually using it yet (need to make some .ogg files first), but the message "Unable to find the specified object." does not appear anymore.

On a side note, I am a bit disappointed with the OGG format. Some website promoted it as giving 50% savings in file size, compared to an MP3 file of the same quality. Well, I have reencoded one file (it's got speech rather than music though) with the lowest quality setting in the OGG encoder, making the result 1/2 of the size of an MP3 file with 128 kbps bitrate. When I play it, it looks like the file uses a variable bitrate of around 60-70 kbps, and the noise has gone up quite noticeably. The recorded speech just doesn't sound as clean as the (128 kbps MP3) original. I then reencoded the original 128 kbps MP3 file to a 64 kbps bitrate. This too reduced the file size by about a factor of two - in fact, it was the same as the size of the OGG file within a tiny fraction of a percent. When I compared this 64 kbps MP3 file to an OGG file, both having the same size and roughly the same bitrate, the MP3 file actually sounded a bit cleaner. So what is the point in OGG then?