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Re:iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU by SOLAR_FIELDS on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:46PM (#30550024)
Ogg is unfortunately not a mainstream codec. 10 years ago, SomewhatWellKnownMusicTrackerThatShallNotBeNamed supported Ogg Vorbis. They discontinued support due to lack of interest and seeding (this was before the French authorities raided them and caused the tracker to be shut). To me, when that tracker stopped supporting Ogg, that’s when it died. Even the music nerd pirates thought it wasn’t worth supporting.
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Re:iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU by mattl on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:56PM (#30550097)
As I understand it Vorbis is the codec and Ogg is a container.

Vorbis was popular with video game developers who didn’t want to pay for MP3 or MP4 licensing but outside of that nope.

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Re:iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU by JonathonW on Friday March 04, 2022 @02:30AM (#30551729)
Spotify’s probably the most (only?) prominent Vorbis user out there… but they probably hardly count since everything they distribute gets wrapped up in their proprietary DRM.
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Re:iPhone 11 Emulated on QEMU by heavyset_go on Friday March 04, 2022 @02:59AM (#30551917)
Yes. Opus "replaced" Vorbis, and has several advantages over older and common formats. Many popular streaming and voice-related apps and platforms use it as codec.
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