ogg vorbis

Hi folks. I have been experimenting with the ogg vorbis sound
compression format, and I am impressed. It has smaller files than mp3
and the sound is comparable. Fraunhoffer, the firm who holds basic
patents on the mp3 technology has begun this year to charge outrageous
fees for use of mp3 at every stage: broadcast, ripping, encoding, so
it may not be too long before the mp3 format starts fading. The other
comparable formats, vq, wma, etc. are all proprietary, but ogg vorbis
is open source. In any case, I have been listening with Winamp
http://www.winamp.com, and encoding with freerip
http://www.mgshareware.com/. I am interested to hear what other list
members think of the sound of this format. Info on ogg vorbis may be
had here: http://www.angrycoffee.com/tutorials/vorbis/
and the main ogg vorbis page is here, but I warn you it takes forever
to load: http://www.ogg-vorbis.com/

John Starrett

John- I'm all for ogg, and Sonic Foundry is behind it too!
(I think Sound Forge 5 has native support).

I'm not so impressed with its sound quality at higher
bitrates (mainly, I'm interested in improving on 128Kbps
mp3 quality) yet, but they admit it's optimized for
lower bitrates right now. Looks real promising.

-Carl

and it is free source
i have been using it for months with NO problems

Pat Pagano, Director
South East Just Intonation Society
http://www.screwmusicforever.com/SHREESWIFT/
----- Original Message -----
From: <carl@lumma.org>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:52 PM
Subject: [tuning] Re: ogg vorbis

> John- I'm all for ogg, and Sonic Foundry is behind it too!
> (I think Sound Forge 5 has native support).
>
> I'm not so impressed with its sound quality at higher
> bitrates (mainly, I'm interested in improving on 128Kbps
> mp3 quality) yet, but they admit it's optimized for
> lower bitrates right now. Looks real promising.
>
> -Carl
>
>
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