Hello Sam,
Allow me just to answer to this point,
Le mercredi 31 mars 2010 à 21:42 +0100, Sam Liddicott a écrit :
For example: most users cannot handle ogg for flac files. Most users who can't accept mp3 but can accept ogg do so out of conscious rejection of mp3. And so the argument for ogg is political and not about interoperability and therfore will seem dishonest to non-technical readers who will then doubt the entire argument. Imagine when nearly everyone they send an ogg to (after the initial difficulty of producing the ogg - from an mp3) needs to ask what an ogg is and how to play it. It will soon be apparent that mp3 should have been used.
I have to say that it is not true, because a lot of very common and famous software can handle those files.
Examples: VLC & Firefox 3.5. The first one is easy to install and very popular.
Best,