Ogg Vorbis

It is perhaps the most popular audio container and has .ogg as extension. Its very common with media players now but if your player does not support it then don’t just worry cause all the needed plugins are easily available online.

Unlike other patented formats like MP3, AAC etc. ogg is completely free. It was developed by Xiph.org and Vorbis is the compression algorithm. Ogg is still maintained by the original developers Xiph.org (Xiph here is pronounced as zif).

Ogg vorbis is generally considered a much better compression format than MP# and is comparable to WMA and AAC (if not better in some cases). Files compressed using Vorbis is smaller than their MP3 counterparts of comparable audio quality. Also as it is completely open source and free, artists who use it to distribute their music have to pay no extra charges or royalties to anybody for using the format.

Also as people say and somewhat I have also felt that the audio quality of a ogg vorbis file encoded at 128 kbps is comparable or even better than 192 Kbps MP3.