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Ogg Vorbis is a iTunes 4 compatable Ogg Vorbis decoder plugin for Quicktime 6.2 or later under Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

This will allow you to play Ogg Vorbis music with iTunes.

Whats New in This Release:

· Metadata. Now uses a (potentially) user-configurable property-list file (MetaDataConfig.plist). Seems to work in QT Player. iTunes ignores some of the tags, such as track number, or the title (!!), but at least it uses album and artist names. (Whats interesting, iTunes doesnt seem to use title metadata at all for more QT imported file formats than just Ogg/Vorbis! Try adding some trailer from official Apple trailers page to your iTunes library. So, It does appear to be iTunes problem/feature.)
· Seeking, pausing, skipping. Some fixes regarding interruptions, dropped pages and seeking in general. There are, sometimes, audible artifacts on the boundaries of the non-consecutive packets, which is to be expected. However, it doesnt happen with the mp3 files... Or does it? Well, at least seeking now doesnt stop playback, as could happen with the previous version.
· Fixed some small bugs and memory leaks.
· Streaming. I did try. ;) In QuickTime Player, the component will usually download ogg pages, and put them into QT tracks, but if the file size is unspecified (as is the case with streaming) it will not play anyway. Importer works properly, and decoder is being set-up, but then QT Player just doesnt ask for decoded samples. And you usually cant even save the stream. If you manage to save, though, you can play the file. If the file contains multiple (chained) logical ogg/vorbis streams - the component, at the moment, inserts them all at time 0. So you can save time listening to all the tracks at once. :D Well, this is one of the many things to work on...
· Streaming in iTunes. Still doesnt work. It doesnt try to use the codec, at all. Just displays the stream as mpeg audio and apparently fails do decode it as such.
· In my experience, iTunes always imports ogg files synchronously, and sometimes does it multiple times per one file (!?). This means there will be slight delay before playback of each file, while iTunes imports the file. I suppose it may mean an even less slight delay on a non-local storage media. Well...
· Equaliser and visualisation in iTunes. Im not sure its not only me, but none of the non-iTunes formats (so, all the external QT-imported file formats) seems to work with equaliser nor visualisation in iTunes on my machine. On the other hand, QT Player has no problems with displaying real-time (well, slightly less real while importing) frequency levels during playback...

Ogg Surgeon 2004 Lite description
Allows you to trim, join and split any number of your Oggs. Using Ogg Surgeon 2004 Lite application you will be able to catalog your Oggs into a MS Excel spreadsheet or convert your Oggs into WAV. All of the features work without the need to re-encode your Oggs making editing extremely fast and with no quality loss when editing.

Ogg Surgeon 2004 Lite is the most powerful visual Ogg editor with the largest selection of Ogg tools for all your Ogg editing needs.

Here are some key features of "Ogg Surgeon 2004 Lite":

· Ogg Tag editing support for all the Ogg tools
· Catalog your Ogg directories into Microsoft Excel
· Micro Zoom for accurate editing of your Oggs
· Visual Waveform display for fast and easy trimming and splitting
· Split wizard for automatic Ogg splitting
· Join multiple Oggs of any size together seamlessly
· Automatic trimming of silence from Oggs
· No re-encoding needed and no quality loss from editing
· Convert your Oggs to WAV files for CD Burning

Ogg Drop is a freeware application that will encode AIFF and AIFC (.aif) sound files as well as Audio CD Tracks, uncompressed QuickTime soundtracks, and System Sound files into an Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) file.

Ogg Vorbis is an alternative to many other encoding formats such as MP3. It provides higher quality output, and is entirely free! Oggs can be played using iTunes, thanks to the included QuickTime component by Steve Nicolai.

Whats New in This Release:

· Pending any minor bug fixes, this will be the last Carbon based Ogg Drop. The next version will be Cocoa based. No major changes were added to this version for that reason.
· Built with Ogg Vorbis libraries 1.1
· Built with XCode 2.1
· Includes QuickTime Component for QuickTime 7 Support, thanks to Arek Korbik: http://zskl.zsk.p.lodz.pl/~skali/oggvorbis.html
· Vorbis libs now included as internal frameworks
· QuickTime Component installer now separated.

Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel.

This places Vorbis in the same competitive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to, but higher performance than MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (TwinVQ), WMA and PAC.

Vorbis is the first of a planned family of Ogg multimedia coding formats being developed as part of Xiph.orgs Ogg multimedia project.

libVorbis is the core Ogg stream / Vorbis engine.

Ogg Theora is Xiph.Orgs first publicly released video codec, intended for use within the Oggs projects Ogg multimedia streaming system.

Theora is derived directly from On2s VP3 codec and is a superset of VP3.

Whats New in This Release:

· This release contains build fixes from the alpha6 release.
· There are no new features.
· The new MMX asm is enabled by default, and a problem with that same code on SELinux machines has been fixed.

Ogg Vorbis is a new audio compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital audio formats.

It is different from these other formats because it is completely free, open, and unpatented.

Xilisoft OGG MP3 Converter is an OGG converter, OGG to MP3 converter. It can convert OGG to MP3, OGG to WAV. It also supports the conversion between popular audio formats WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG.
As an OGG Converter, one of the most featured function is that the OGG to MP3 converter supports converting MP3 to OGG, OGG to MP3 with an easy and completed way.
The OGG MP3 Converter supports ID3 tag edition which is useful for the OGG to MP3, OGG to WAV converting. It supports multithreading and batch conversion. All conversion processes are very easy to handle.

Software Features:
1. Convert between MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG;
2. Convert OGG to MP3, MP3 to OGG, OGG to WAV;
3. Support batch conversion;
4. Copy ID3 tag between audio formats (reserve ID3 tag during conversion);
5. When converting to MP3, bitrate, VBR or CBR, stereo or mono are selectable;
6. Allow users to select whether delete the original files.

RM OGG Converter supports batch conversion between RM, RMVB, OGG files. It converts the audio files digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals.

RM OGG Converter is able of Converting RM and RMVB file to OGG. Converting OGG to RM, RMVB. it adopts advanced LAME Encoder and OGG codec, allows you to generate high qualities of RM and OGG files. it offers rich options for your special requirements. Support MP3 VBR, RM VBR and OGG VBR.

Here are some key features of "RM OGG Converter":

· Convert RM to OGG format.
· Convert OGG to RM format.
· Support Real Audio(RM RMVB).
· Support Real Vidio(RM RMVB).
· Rich Options of OGG Encoder. Support OGG from 6,000 to 48000 sample rate.
· With a small id3 editor built in. You can easily edit Files (OGG Vorbis) ID3 tag information.
· Support OGG VBR.
· Support OGG Quality Balance.
· With user-friendly-interface and converting your files is just a button click away, youll be an experter in no time!


Limitations:

· you can only convert 10 files.

RM OGG Converter supports batch conversion between RM, RMVB, OGG files. It converts the audio files digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals.

RM OGG Converter is capable of Converting RM and RMVB file to OGG. Converting OGG to RM, RMVB. it adopts advanced LAME Encoder and OGG codec, allows you to generate high qualities of RM and OGG files. it offers rich options for your special requirements. Support MP3 VBR, RM VBR and OGG VBR.

it build with a small ID3 editor, you can add/edit the Title, Artist, Album, Year, Genre, Comment information into the files you create with the small editor.

Features:
- Convert RM to OGG format.
- Convert OGG to RM format.
- Support Real Audio(RM RMVB).
- Support Real Vidio(RM RMVB).
- Rich Options of OGG Encoder. Support OGG from 6,000 to 48000 sample rate.
- With a small id3 editor built in. You can easily edit Files (OGG Vorbis) ID3 tag information.
- Support OGG VBR.
- Support OGG Quality Balance.
- With user-friendly-interface and converting your files is just a button click away, youll be an experter in no time!
- and many more!