About the size of a deck of playing cards, the Victor Reader Stream is designed to enable people who are blind or have low vision to quickly and accurately access the content of various electronic Talking Book formats, including DAISY, Bookshare, text, wav, MP3,
OGG Vorbis, and Audible.com audio files.
Cram the 4GB hard drive with MP3, WMA and
Ogg Vorbis tunes or play MPEG4 and WMV9 video files on the 2.2in QVGA screen.
Beginning with volume 1, number 3 (July 2006), EMR includes audio examples in
Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) format.
Record Now 9 supports the most popular formats including: MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, and
OGG Vorbis.
Squeezebox supports MP3,
Ogg Vorbis, and WMA-formatted Internet Radio streams.
FLAC,
Ogg Vorbis, WMA Lossless, Apple Lossless, MP3 and AAC), without the hassle of shuffling through CDs.
[Editor's Note: For more details about audiobook file formats, see the feature "An Overview of Digital Audiobooks for Libraries" in the July/August 2005 issue of CIL.] Other virtuous formats, such as
Ogg Vorbis, are trying to get some traction.
It supports five formats for digital music - WAV, WMA, MP3,
OGG Vorbis and AAC.
Already capable of playing MP3 and WMA, and with an integral FM tuner, once you download and install the firmware upgrade, the iMP-550 CD player will also be able to cope with the new audio compression format,
Ogg Vorbis. The guys who run Vorbis claim that it "sounds better than MP3." So with the iMP-550, you get the best of both worlds.
Media Wizard supports all popular multimedia formats for playback, including MPEG Layer-3 (MP3), MPEG Layer-2 (MP2), Active Streaming Format (ASF), MPEG Video (MPG, MPEG, MPE), Windows Video (AVI), Windows Media Audio/Video (WMA, WMV),
OGG Vorbis (OGG), Vivo Digital Video (VIV), Apple QuickTime (MOV, QT), Windows Audio (WAV), Vox Dialogic (VOX), Audio CD (CDA), Video CD (DAT), Media Playlists (ASX, WAX, M3U, WVX), MIDI, AIFF, AU, SND, and more.
In the same amount of time,
Ogg Vorbis has been downloaded over 250,000 times.