A Danish consumer electronics maker has unveiled the first DVD player to support the Ogg Vorbis music format, a favourite among technology enthusiasts. Kiss Technology, based in Denmark, will add ...

RealNetworks today announced a collaboration with the Xiph.Org Foundation to integrate the Ogg Vorbis format and audio codec with the Helix DNA Client. The Helix DNA Client is source code from ...

Two of the best and most popular audio formats have returned to iTunes. The open source formats FLAC and ogg vorbis can play natively in iTunes once again thanks to a new universal binary QuickTime ...

Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk wrote an article today for Wired News about the recent patent lawsuit between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent. A federal jury ordered Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1 ...

Google's interest in the royalty-free Vorbis audio codec raises new possibilities for successors CELT and, in the longer run, Ghost. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

It looks like Ogg Vorbis, that open source audio codec developed as an alternative to MP3 and all the other proprietary (and this license fee demanding) formats out there, may finally be supported by ...

Ogg Vorbis, an audio format created to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3, could at last be making its way into portable digital audio players. The format reached a milestone 1.0 release ...

The MP3 format, without a doubt, has revolutionized the way we all listen to music. Not only does it allow us to store our music in a compact format, but we are able to effortlessly transfer our files ...

Streaming services are expensive. I enjoy and collect music in both physical and digital formats. I own CDs, LPs, DualDiscs, DVD-As, and SACDs. I've even written about physical media formats ...

A Codec is a combination of Coder and Decoder, or Compressor and Decompressor, and it is software used to compress or decompress digital media files, such as songs or videos. To play OGG, Vorbis, and ...

Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format. The official release of the audio encoding and streaming technology has ...