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 Opus, Matroska, WavPack and Apple Lossless.

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Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit,...

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FLAC
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8 alternatives to FLAC
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. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed...
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1. Lossless AudioFLAC has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
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Opus
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7 alternatives to Opus
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.
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Royalty free
Low Latency
Matroska
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11 alternatives to Matroska
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.
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WavPack
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7 alternatives to WavPack
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...
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Apple Lossless
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Free • Open Source
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7 alternatives to Apple Lossless
Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.
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Nero AAC Codec
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7 alternatives to Nero AAC Codec
Nero AAC reference quality MPEG-4 and 3GPP audio codec
- Compression ratios ranging from Ultra High (58 CDs fit on one!) to High-End Audio (2.5:1), for absolutely perfect audiophile encodings
- Crystal-clear, award-winning sound quality at every compression ratio and bit.
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1. Command line interfaceNero AAC Codec either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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TAK
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Free • Proprietary
Audio Codec
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10 alternatives to TAK
»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.
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1. Lossless AudioTAK has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
Speex
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3 alternatives to Speex
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.

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