Who'll Be Using Ogg Vorbis Instead Of MP3?

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?

Comments

Re:Killing the myth once again

[Anonymous Coward]

If only you knew the power of the p0rn side.
</heavy breathing>

Re:The Name SUCKS

[radja]

hey, listen to me nice new oggies!

geez.. at least ogg is slightly pronouncable..

//rdj

The Name SUCKS

[Kenshin]

I'm gonna be brutally honest here, but if you're gonna get people to use Ogg, you've gotta change the name. From a marketing standpoint, it's abyssmal.

Think about it: you're a teenager, you want to share music with your friends. Which name is going to get you called a nerd and beat up? Which sounds cooler? (In a teen way, not geek way.)

A) "Hey! I got some new tunes! Want some MP3s?"
B) "Hey! I got some new tunes! Want some Ogg Vorbis files?"

Process that, and then wonder why people aren't using the format that is "the choice of nerds everywhere..."

Re:Killing the myth once again

[mini me]

Well I suggest that from this point forward, all adult film music be recorded in Ogg format.

Scary thought

[Weasel Boy]

If quality mattered, we'd have MENSA MEMBERS and ETHICS SPECIALISTS in our elected offices, and we'd pay attention to the legislation that they offered.

The overwhelming majority of Slashdot readers are smart enough to be in Mensa. Do you want the world run by Anonymous Coward? ;-)

Re:Killing the myth once again

[Anonymous Coward]

Well-documented by conservative economists who stand to lose big if ever an example of a failure of their precious market is found.

I thought it was the aliens trying to encode the information to get through my aluminum foil and wet towel head protection. Or is it part of that whole conspiracy to continue to MASK THE TRUTH that the Soviet Union was an unparallelled success and was only brought down by our evil inferior free economy by the use of stolen alien technology?

yes, you're the only one

[Trepidity]

I'm not the only one slow on the MP3 curve, basically starting from scratch with Vorbis, am I?

Yes, you are. Even all my non-computer-literate friends figured out what Napster was and how to use it to get mp3s about 1 1/2 years ago, and even my mom has been downloading mp3s for the past 6 months. I'm afraid you're the last one.

Re:Why I Encoded 700+ CD's with Ogg Vorbis

[Swaffs]

I'd be very interested in hearing the english version of this comment. Can anyone help me out?