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I’ve yet to see anyone distributing music only in Ogg Vorbis save for some backdoored Spotify thing.
by mattl 5y ago
I’ve yet to see anyone distributing music only in Ogg Vorbis save for some backdoored Spotify thing.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y agoOgg is unfortunately not a mainstream codec. 10 years ago, SomewhatWellKnownMusicTrackerThatShallNotBeNamed supported Ogg Vorbis. They discontinued support due to lack of interest and seeding (this was before the French authorities raided them and caused the tracker to be shut). To me, when that tracker stopped supporting Ogg, that’s when it died. Even the music nerd pirates thought it wasn’t worth supporting.
- mattl 5y agoAs I understand it Vorbis is the codec and Ogg is a container. Vorbis was popular with video game developers who didn’t want to pay for MP3 or MP4 licensing but outside of that nope.
- JonathonW 5y agoSpotify’s probably the most (only?) prominent Vorbis user out there… but they probably hardly count since everything they distribute gets wrapped up in their proprietary DRM.
- heavyset_go 5y agoYes. Opus "replaced" Vorbis, and has several advantages over older and common formats. Many popular streaming and voice-related apps and platforms use it as codec.
- oauea 5y agoAnyone who does will have Apple users complaining in no time.
- heavyset_go 5y agoBandcamp does this for all of their paid and free downloads. They also do FLAC.
- mattl 5y agoBandcamp doesn’t do it exclusively and I wonder if they’ll keep supporting it.
- heavyset_go 5y agoI don't see why they wouldn't, it's one of their selling points and they offer about a half dozen different codecs and containers.
- mattl 5y agoHope so.