Two of the best and most popular audio formats have returned to iTunes. The open source formats FLAC and ogg vorbis can play natively in iTunes once again thanks to a new universal binary QuickTime ...

It looks like Ogg Vorbis, that open source audio codec developed as an alternative to MP3 and all the other proprietary (and this license fee demanding) formats out there, may finally be supported by ...

Ogg Vorbis, an audio format created to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3, could at last be making its way into portable digital audio players. The format reached a milestone 1.0 release ...

Google's interest in the royalty-free Vorbis audio codec raises new possibilities for successors CELT and, in the longer run, Ghost. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

A Codec is a combination of Coder and Decoder, or Compressor and Decompressor, and it is software used to compress or decompress digital media files, such as songs or videos. To play OGG, Vorbis, and ...

Ogg's time has come -- again. In an effort to rally support for the underdog media format, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOgg.org, a website promoting awareness of the Ogg format. It's ...

I can not find any reference to a vorbis dependency in any of the documents i have found. I would post this at their forum but there is no traffic there so i dont believe I would get a response or if ...

MP3 may be the standard for online music, but Ogg Vorbis from Xiph.org is making a push for respectability, according to this NewsForge article. Unlike MP3, which has royalties collected by Thomson, ...

I'm trying to find more information on this and I thought I'd turn to the A/V forum for it. For a while now I've been using Exact Audio Copy and LAME, with --alt-preset extreme to make some high ...

Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format. The official release of the audio encoding and streaming technology has ...

So a few days back audio engineer Hugh Fiennese postulated that the iPod may not have the computational horsepower to play OGG Vorbis files in the first place. Turns out that might not be the case, as ...

RealNetworks, the most recent corporate convert to open-source religion, has pledged to embrace streaming media's open-source stalwart in a move that could threaten the popular MP3 format.