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-Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk [wrote an article today][3] for Wired News about the recent patent lawsuit between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent. A federal jury ordered Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 billion for patent infringements involving the MP3 audio-compression format.
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-One the potential bits of fallout from the recent ruling is that now, to a certain extent, all MP3 licenses are on questionable legal footing. As Buskirk points out, there are number of competing formats that may benefit from this, most notably the audiophile favorite -- [Ogg Vorbis][4].
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-For years now one of my audiophile friends has been going on about how great Ogg Vorbis is and how I need to convert my whole music library to Ogg Vorbis. As it stands my library is about 120 GB so that's no light undertaking and, as my friend will admit after a few drinks, converting MP3s to Ogg Vorbis files won't give me the additional sound quality the format is famed for since the files are already compressed.
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-To be honest though, I *would* rather have my files in an open format, but unfortunately Apple doesn't support .ogg files on the iPod and that remains a deal breaker for me.
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-There are some plugins that will let you play .ogg files in iTunes. A couple months back I [wrote about the Quicktime 7 ogg components][2] from [Xiph][1] (note that, as I mentioned in that original article, I've never gotten the FLAC support to work, but Ogg Vorbis component works fine). 
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-But the Quicktime plugins only solve half of the problem -- playback. If I really wanted to embrace Ogg Vorbis, I'd need an encoder/converter as well. Unfortunately the QuickTime 7 codec plugins from Xiph don't support encoding (the Quicktime 6 version did for those of you on older systems). 
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-The official Ogg Vorbis site recommends [Ogg Drop][5] for encoding, and I also found a nice looking free, open source Mac app by the name of [Max][6], which supports encoding/converting of some 20 different formats including Ogg Vorbis.
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-Of course none of this addresses my main complaint about Ogg Vorbis -- the iPod problem. Gizmodo [wrote an open letter to Apple][7] almost three years ago asking them to support Ogg Vorbis. According to Ogg's developer the iPod could handle it and in fact todays article quotes him as saying Apple has had "several chances" to add Ogg support, but "passed each time." At this point I think it's safe to assume Apple has no plans to do so, since they seem quite happy with AAC.
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-I just downloaded Max and Off Drop which I'm planning to try them out over the weekend, but in the mean time does anyone else have any other suggestions for people looking to try out Ogg Vorbis? Linux has good Ogg Vorbis support I know, but what about Windows? And is there some obscure firmware hack that lets .ogg files play on the iPod?
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-[1]: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html "Ogg Vorbis QuickTime Components"
-[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/plugin_adds_ogg.html "Plugin Adds Ogg/FLAC Support In ITunes"
-[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/music/0,72785-0.html "MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain"
-[4]: http://www.vorbis.com/ "Ogg Vorbis"
-[5]: http://www.nouturn.com/oggdrop/index.php "Ogg Drop"
-[6]: http://sbooth.org/Max/ "Max"
-[7]: http://gizmodo.com/archives/open-letter-to-apple-ogg-for-us-please-015547.php "Ogg For Us, Please"
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