Ogg's time has come -- again. In an effort to rally support for the underdog media format, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOgg.org, a website promoting awareness of the Ogg format. It's ...

Audio has become one of the killer apps of the network. With the distribution power that the global network offers, the music industry is being reshaped forever. The boom of audio applications and ...

Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format. The official release of the audio encoding and streaming technology has ...

Wired News reports on how to incorporate the Ogg Vorbis file format into your music library. Why Ogg Vorbis? The Free Software Foundation explains: The use of MP3 is restricted by patents, while Ogg ...

Update: John Sullivan of the Free Software Foundation responds in the Talkback section. In addition, the FSF has revised its FAQ page. See the update at the end of this post for details. In the great ...

The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, a group devoted to publishing web standards, recently moved to approve the Ogg video and audio formats for inclusion into the forthcoming HTML5 standard. Nokia, ...

Audiophiles love FLAC files for their lossless fidelity, while Ogg and WMA files aren't widely supported. With free plug-ins, all three of those formats can be played and managed in iTunes. MacWorld ...

In the past few weeks, the Ogg family of patent-free media formats have received something of a boost. Some developments playing to Ogg's advantage have been unintentional, such as Microsoft's renewed ...

This was an exciting week for the KDE project, which officially launched its 4.2 release. We also got our first glimpse of Moblin 2, and Mozilla launched a new campaign in collaboration with the ...

Dear Apple, the other day I mentioned that lots of us would like an official position about Ogg Vorbis support for the iPod. Let me restate the request in more clear terms, without my usual ...