Almost all audio players have native support for OGG Vorbis
Developed by a foundation, the Ogg Vorbis music file format is a completely patent-free audio encoding and decoding standard, making it ideal for those who need a free codec to store their music. With the extension .ogg or .oga, this standard makes your files smaller than MP3 and achieve better quality levels.
Created to replace MP3, which is a proprietary Fraunhofer IIS standard, and in 1998 began charging fees for all equipment that included the built-in encoder, Ogg Vorbis is divided into two parts: Ogg, which contains information on metadata, and Vorbis, which is the encoder used on top of Ogg to compress the songs, being technically possible to use them separately along with other standards.
Unlike FLAC and Monkey’s Audio formats, OGG Vorbis is a codec that works with loss of information like MP3 and WMA, it supports up to 255 independent channels of reproduction, being an excellent option for both, generating 25% of smaller files in Average, but it takes a little bit longer in the encoding process. Widely adopted by users of the Linux operating system for having its open source, it is also very popular among Windows users, as it brings compression and decoding codecs to both systems natively.
