New Format: Ogg Vorbis

Subject: New Format: Ogg Vorbis
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 02:15 PM

Any Mudcatter up to date on these MP3 Competitors?

www.ogg-vorbis.com

or

The Monkey's Audio format?

www.monkeysaudio.com

Subject: RE: New Format: Ogg Vorbis
From: GUEST,cookieless hesperis
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 12:49 AM

Yepper!

Monkey's audio is LOSSLESS compression, which means you can turn it back to a wav and it will lose nothing, perfect for copying a music library that you actually want to listen to. Of course, that means it doesn't go as small as mp3.

Ogg Vorbis is my favorite format right now. At 128 kbps, which is sort-of the "standard" for mp3, an ogg file is slightly smaller and sounds better than an mp3. I look forward to the technology's maturation.

Subject: RE: New Format: Ogg Vorbis
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 05:39 PM

Sounds interesting but neither of the websites would let me display them......
Are there any programmes which allow you to experiment with the file formats?
Quack!
Geoff the Duck!

Subject: RE: New Format: Ogg Vorbis
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 06:00 PM

Try This--

* OGG VORBIS COM *

and this---

* THE MONKEYSAUDIO COM *

I have sometimes noticed an extra space at the end of posted URLs, that often causes problems..

Subject: RE: New Format: Ogg Vorbis
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 06:01 PM

well i really messed those up!!!! I GIVE UP!!!

Subject: RE: New Format: Ogg Vorbis
From: treewind
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 06:20 PM

Try this:
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
and http://www.ogg-vorbis.com/
for clickies that (might) work...

As far as Ogg is concerned, I don't know if "maturity" is quite the right word for what it needs - widespread support and adoption is the thing - the more software can read and encode it, the more it'll get used.

Anahata

Subject: RE: New Format: Ogg Vorbis
From: GUEST,cookieless hesperis
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 10:47 PM

www.dbpoweramp.com convertor works pretty well. Ogg plays in sonique, winamp, etc, with the plugins.

Ogg and monkeys audio are better if you want to encode stuff yourself, like your own music. If you want to get other people's music for free, go with mp3 as it's currently the most popular.