Ogg and MP3 File Formats

Ogg is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The Ogg format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

The Ogg bitstream format, spearheaded by the Xiph.Org Foundation, has been created as the framework of a larger initiative aimed at developing a set of components for the coding and decoding of multimedia content which are available free of charge and are freely re-implementable in software.

From the first half of 1995 through the late 1990s, MP3 files began to spread on the Internet. MP3's popularity began to rise rapidly with the advent of Nullsoft's audio player Winamp (released in 1997), and the Unix audio player mpg123. The small size of MP3 files has enabled widespread peer-to-peer file sharing of music ripped from compact discs, which would previously have been nearly impossible.Despite the popularity of MP3, online music retailers often use other proprietary formats that are encrypted (known as Digital rights management) to prevent users from using purchased music in ways not specifically authorized by the record companies.

Unauthorized MP3 filesharing continues on next-generation peer-to-peer networks, though some authorized services, such as eMusic, and Amazon.com sell unrestricted music in the MP3 format.

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Ogg is only a container format. The actual audio or video encoded by a codec will be stored inside an Ogg container. Ogg containers may contain streams encoded with multiple codecs, for example, an audio video file may contain data encoded by both an audio codec and a video codec.

Being a Container format, Ogg can embed audio and video in various formats (such as MPEG-4, Dirac, MP3 and others) but usually Ogg is used with the following:

* Audio codecs
o lossy
+ Speex: handles voice data at low bitrates (~8-32 kbit/s/channel)
+ Vorbis: handles general audio data at mid- to high-level variable bitrates (~16-500 kbit/s/channel)
o lossless
+ FLAC: handles archival and high fidelity audio data