The German website Heise reports that Ogg Vorbis has beaten MP3, MP3 Pro, AAC, Real Audio Surround and Windows Media in a recent hearing test performed by the website. Over 6.000 people performed the testing, and especially when it comes to files encoded with a low bit-rate, Ogg Vorbis was cleary beating the other formats.
Ogg Vorbis is an open source project and it's goal are to create a license free open source lossy audio compression format. Besides gaining more and more populairy because it's license free, also people who want quality music are starting to discover the format.
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Also over 6000 on-line delivered evaluations (of it scarce 3300 for the Samples coded with 64 kBit/s), it concerns one of the largest hearing tests for lossy compression procedures at all. Here again a cordial thank-beautifully to all participants!
In particular with 64 kBit/s Ogg Vorbis could convince and left the entire prominent competition behind itself. Starting from 128 kBit/s the perceptible differences between the formats fail clearly smaller, so that WMA, RealAudio, MP3Pro and also MP3 for most ears only with difficulty were to be differentiated.
If you would like to read the entiry story in German, go here. If you would like more information on Ogg Vorbis go here. And remember, some people have to be the first to make something populair. MP3 is the mainstream format now, Ogg Vorbis could be the next!
Source: Heise
