Vorbis Alternatives
Vorbis is described as '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' and is a very popular Audio Codec in the audio & music category. There are eight alternatives to Vorbis for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD. The best alternative is FLAC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vorbis are Matroska, Opus Interactive Audio Codec, WavPack and Apple Lossless.
- FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality.No screenshots yet
- 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.No screenshots yet
- 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.
- WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode.No screenshots yet
- Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.No screenshots yet
- Nero AAC reference quality MPEG-4 and 3GPP audio codecNo screenshots yet
- »TAK – [T]om’s lossless [a]udio [k]ompressor / [T]oms verlustfreier [A]udio[k]ompressor – is, as the name already suggests, a lossless audio compressor, similar to FLAC, WavPack and Monkey’s Audio.
- Speex is a patent-free audio compression format designed for speech and also a free software speech codec that may be used on VoIP applications and podcasts.No screenshots yet