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Ogg The Conqueror? RC2 Is Out

Posted by timothy on from the lo-there-was-much-rejoicing dept.

jonathan_ingram writes: "There has been a lot of discussion recently in Slashdot about sound compression formats. Much has been focused on Ogg Vorbis, but the most recent version available has been a beta released in Feburary. Today, RC2 of Vorbis has been released. The most important of the many changes is channel coupling, which means that Vorbis can now encode bitsteams at a much lower bitrate than before. Try it out today!"

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  1. Why would I want to give up MP3s? by fetta · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    I understand the philosophical arguments for using an open source standard instead of MP3s, but I have a hard time imagining that Ogg Vorbis will win out. MP3s are easy to use, easy to create (from existing CDs, at least), etc. I don't see the big motivating factor for people to go to Ogg Vorbis. The future seems to be divided up between MP3 and copy-protected formats provided by companies like Microsoft.

    What am I missing? What is going to motivate anyone but idealogically motivated open source advocates to switch to Ogg Vorbis?

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