While .MP3 is really the standard at this moment, many other formats also want a piece of the big music pie at the moment. Formats like mp3PRO, OGG Vorbis, LAME or WMA are searching their way through the Internet and sometimes proving to be better then the good old mp3 format. Chip online (Deutsch) has taken a look at some formats and created a nice article with the positive and negative points.
The article also includes some explanation about the way the (mp3) format works, some more information about Fraunhofer MP3-Encoder, Blade-Encoder and the lame encoder.
The article is in german and can be read here. You can use Babelfish to translate it to your own language.
Source: chip.de
