Ogg Vorbis MP3-Replacement a Reality?

<font color='#000000'>According to the Xiph.org Foundation website the open-source, non-proprietary codec, Ogg Vorbis, has finally achieved the potential for widespread success due to some hardware vendors lending their support to the codec.

In case you were not aware, Ogg Vorbis, was designed as an open source alternative to MP3 & MPEG-4, implementing such advanced features as on-the-fly bitrate reduction (without re-encoding) and an encoding model that can be improved over time, without killing backwards compatibility. It is said that it "rivals or surpasses the 'upcoming' generation of proprietary coders (AAC and TwinVQ, also known as VQF)."

The really interesting thing is that, unlike some speaker companies we love to trash, Ogg Vorbis has posted listening comparisons of its codec in use against the likes of MP3Pro, WMA 8, AAC (QuickTime), MP3Enc31, and Yamaha VQF. Take a listen and see for yourself!</font>
 
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