Who'll Be Using Ogg Vorbis Instead Of MP3?

Posted by timothy on Monday August 6, 2001 @04:40AM from the every-man-and-his-monkey dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Ogg Vorbis is hitting stable and hopefully will release 1.0 soon. But I'm wondering, who is going to use it? MP3 is very popular on the net and beyond, but it's based on patents. Software patents aren't legal in Europe, but are in other parts of the world. Is Ogg Vorbis making a chance to become the next music-standard for the net and beyond. This mainly because there are no patents broken by this standard. Will it be a standard for the world or one for the books?"

Never having bothered to do it before with MP3, I've recently started ripping my CD collection to .ogg files, and the quality is good to my (tin) ears. Someone with an entrepreneurial bent needs to sell a dedicated hardware player that takes CD-Rs, so I can play back 10 hours of books on tape from a single disk. I'm not the only one slow on the MP3 curve, basically starting from scratch with Vorbis, am I?

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Re:Ogg is not for me by unformed · 2001-08-06 05:09 · Score: 2, Flamebait

agree with you fully...but bad analogy: BetaMax was here first, and they lost. Hmmm, that gets me thinking: Maybe we should get the porn industry to distrbute sound clips in Ogg format.

(If you have no clue what I'm talking about [ie: history of VHS] ignore the joke)
Ogg problems by Anonymous Coward · 2001-08-06 04:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

1) STUPID name.
2) "It's patent free so it must be crap". This is reinforced by the low sound quality the "free" mp3 codecs produce in comparison to the Fraunhofer codec.