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Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis for all its streams, I believe. But I guess that doesn't really count when it's heavily DRM encumbered and delivered by unfree software.
by spilk 10y ago
Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis for all its streams, I believe. But I guess that doesn't really count when it's heavily DRM encumbered and delivered by unfree software.
- TD-Linux 10y agoIt also found a niche market in video games, where it's very common to this day (there's an outdated list on the xiph wiki [1]). Netflix also used it on the Wii when they didn't have a system decoder available [2]. [1] https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Games_that_use_Vorbis https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Games_that_use_Vorbis [2] http://blog.streamingmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013SMEast-C101.pdf http://blog.streamingmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20...
- cpach 10y agoI wonder if they still use Vorbis now that so many use Spotify on their smartphones. Lack of hardware decoding might be an issue.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoI think it "counts" in the sense that Spotify had the freedom to do that, which is exactly what Stallman was fighting for.