Let Sleeping Oggs Lie–It’s a Music File Format Without Support or Hope

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 20, 2007

[ Thanks to Pam for this link.
]

“Last week’s feature about the possible future of audio file
formats attracted a lot of feedback–which is odd, because most
people don’t really care which ones they use, and may not even know
what they are. But it turns out there’s a handful of open source
evangelists who think you should use Ogg or Ogg Vorbis, because
it’s free in both senses (as in speech; as in beer).

“That’s fine with me. I don’t use Ogg myself, but I often
recommend Flac (free lossless audio codec), which is also open
source and free…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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