Royalty-free lossy audio encoding format.
1Windows users can play back Ogg Vorbis files on the desktop using WinAmp.
2The next who dies is Vorbis, the single-minded, pitiless, utterly unshakable Omnian Exquisitor.
3Theora and Vorbis are both free of such restrictions.
4Of course none of this addresses my main complaint about Ogg Vorbis -the iPod problem.
5Gizmodo wrote an open letter to Apple almost three years ago asking them to support Ogg Vorbis.
6None has plans to release music in the format, mainly because Vorbis has no built-in antipiracy mechanisms.
7Support for Ogg Vorbis audio has waxed and waned over the years since digital music hit the mainstream.
8Montgomery, who lives in Boston, recently released the first official version of Vorbis after a yearlong beta test.
9And then Brutha sees Vorbis, hunched on the sand, too paralysed with fear to have even started the journey.
10Wired News predicted a surge in interest around Ogg Vorbis following recent patent lawsuits over use of the MP3 format.
11Whereupon Brutha, true to his own nature, offers companionship to Vorbis, and they set out to cross the desert together.
12But with the launch of the FSF's web campaign, the time may be ripe for Ogg Vorbis to truly shine.
13It's an educational primer for playing Ogg Vorbis audio files and Ogg Theora video files on Mac and Windows desktops.
14'But Vorbis died a hundred years ago!'
15Last week I looked into Ogg Vorbis and in the process discovered a Mac-only format conversion program by the name of Max.
16There have been a few attempts at Ogg Vorbis QuickTime plugins in the past, but most of them seem to have been abandoned.