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Oggs Over Easy

Sound wave by betmari is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

As my recent blog entry on Audacity mentioned Ogg Vorbis, I thought I’d try to give an explanation of this technology a shot. Ogg Vorbis is an open source, studio level audio encoding and streaming media. It’s licensed under the GNU General Public License and is supported by a community of developers.
The .ogg file format may not be recognizable to most but can be recommended as a substitute for .mp3. It is valued for it’s low bandwidth and benefits to efficient storage. Where Vorbis is the audio compression, Ogg is the container format. Both technologies were developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.  The combination of Audacity to create and edit files and exporting to .ogg shows how open source solutions can be expertly applied to your next project.

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