Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Ogg Vorbis (was: Re: gogo)

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Ogg Vorbis (was: Re: gogo)
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 07:29:54 EET

Josh Green wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 10:46, Sylvain CHAMBON wrote:
> >
> > OK I've just seen an information about that on another french ML. Ogg is a free
> > option to MP3 which is not GPL. Right ?
> >
> > In this E-mail, they said BBC are broadcasting Ogg flow on this URL :
> >
> > http://support.bbc.co.uk/oggstreams.shtml
> >
> >
> > À bientôt.
> >
> > Sylvain
>
> >From what I have read, not only is Ogg a free alternative to MP3 (which
> technically requires royalties to be paid to the fraunhofer institute
> when encoding MP3s) it is also superior in quality (at the same bit
> rate). I haven't tested it thoroughly yet, but it looks like the next
> lossy audio compression of choice for streaming as well as sharing of
> music.
>

Once again to my ears ogg does sound better. Maybe it's a psycho open
source phenomena ;P 

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