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Ogg Vorbis Share Reaches 12.3% on P2P Traffic

Posted by timothy on from the lies-damn-lies-and-maybe-just-maybe-truth dept.

prostoalex writes "According to CacheLogic survey, 61.44% of the peer-to-peer traffic nowadays is video, with audio taking distant second place, representing 11.34% of global traffic. Moreover, 12.3% of all the music files traded on P2P networks are in Ogg format. Almost all of the OGG files are traded via BitTorrent protocol with most of the growth coming from Asia, CacheLogic says."

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  1. Nice misleading title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    12.3% of MUSIC transfers, which is 11.34% of all traffic -- so Ogg makes up 1.4% of all P2P traffic. Which ain't bad at all, but is nowhere near 12.3

    1. Re:Nice misleading title by joebutton · · Score: 5, Informative

      > Yeah, not many people download movies in OGG
      > format, and the ones that do probably spend a lot
      > of time trying to figure out why the sound works
      > perfectly but the picture is so garbled.

      Actually ogg is a container format which can contain both sound and video. Vorbis is the audio format.

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  2. Re:Slightly OT by vonstauf · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not being at my desktop because I'm fair away in cube land, I can atleast attest that my XMMS player that came stock with Slackware seems to do just fine with the equalizer and ogg files. I'll test it out when I get back to the bat cave. This bug seems to be what you're dealing with. Here are some comments about it.

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  3. Re:Downloading Garbage by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Grateful Dead

    And hundreds of other bands in Archive.org

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  4. Re:Portable music players by isolationism · · Score: 4, Informative
    Plenty of the iRiver and Samsung offerings support it. My 1GB samsung YP-T6 is (slightly) smaller than a Shuffle, has a screen and more than 2 play modes, an FM tuner, a mic and line in with direct encoding capability (128kbps, but good enough for dictating notes etc.) and plays MP3, WMA, and OGG just fine. It also connects to Windows and Linux as a regular mass-storage device and so doesn't require iTunes or any of its open-source alternatives.

    It's a pity OGG support isn't more wide-spread, and worse still that lots of people bitch about wanting mp3s, completely oblivious to the closed-source brick wall the "next generation" of mp3 formats is going to present. I naturally will be smug with my OGG-playing YP-T6 and EPIA running Linux/Freevo as a set-top multimedia player.