Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, 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.
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FLAC Alternatives for Linux
There are many alternatives to FLAC for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Vorbis, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked seven alternatives to FLAC and four of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to FLAC are Opus, Matroska and WavPack.
Alternatives list
Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet, but also intended for storage and streaming applications.
The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file.
WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. Although the technology is loosely based on previous versions of WavPack, the new version 4 format has been designed from the ground up to offer...
