neoufo51 used our newssubmit to tell us that the more and more populair open source, lossy audio compression technology Ogg Vorbis has released it's 'gold' version last night.
The technology is becoming more populair because of it's good quality and more important because it's open source and does not require an expensive license as with MP3 (developed by Fraunhofer) Here are the comments of one of the developers:
The code went 'gold' tonight. Vorbis 1.0 is in CVS and it's time to hand off to release engineering. |
I've updated the vendor strind in the libvorbis code, but all other instances of version number need to be updated as well. I know this
is set in a million places, for autoconf, debian, redhat, Mac and Win projects, etc...
This is the real 1.0. Mark as such before building.
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Source: Xiph.org
