[vorbis-dev] iCAST Announces Beta Release of Vorbis (fwd)

[John Zitterkopf]

All I can say is WOW! I just got my first taste of Vorbis.... I'm hooked.

CDMaster32 will be supporting Vorbis as soon as possible.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Moffitt" <jack at icecast.org>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Cc: <vorbis-dev at xiph.org>; <discuss at icecast.org>; <pho at onehouse.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:53 PM
Subject: [vorbis-dev] iCAST Announces Beta Release of Vorbis (fwd)

>
> below is the press release that went out today :)
>
> it was great to see a lot of you at the summit today...
>
> jack.
>
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>
> Beta Version of Vorbis Released, led by iCAST Developers
>
> Free, Open Source Alternative to MP3 Codec Gains Early Support from iCAST,
> Sonique, EMusic, Napster, Etrantrum, Panic and XMMS
>
>  San Diego, CA - June 20, 2000 - Project Vorbis, spearheaded by developers
> from iCAST (www.icast.com), an online entertainment and majority-owned
> operating company of CMGI, today announced the Beta release of Vorbis, a
> high-quality open source audio compression/decompression format (codec)
that
> is expected to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3 and other audio
> compression formats.  Several leaders in the digital audio player market
> have already announced support for Vorbis, including EMusic, Sonique,
> Napster, Etrantrum, Panic and XMMS.
>
> Similar to the popular MP3 codec, Vorbis is designed to allow any person
or
> organization to freely encode audio content and make it available in a
> downloadable format.  Individuals or organizations using Vorbis will be
able
> to develop and market their own Vorbis-based audio players and encoders,
> without having to pay costly fees for the Vorbis technology.
>
> Leading the development of Vorbis are iCAST Vice President of technology
> Jack Moffitt, iCAST Senior Applications Developer Chris Montgomery and an
> open source team that includes the creators of the Icecast streaming media
> server, cdparanoia.
>
> "Early listening tests of Vorbis show that it provides excellent sound
> quality that is comparable, if not superior, to competing formats, and we
> haven't even reached our first release," said Moffitt.  "This is a
> breakthrough development for companies that are seeking an alternative to
> the stringent patent protection and royalty fees enforced by the patent
> holders of the popular MP3 file format."
>
> "Napster continues its commitment to support leading music file formats
such
> as Vorbis," said Shawn Fanning, Founder Napster.  "Vorbis offers great
> benefits to musicians who want to share and distribute their music in a
cost
> effective manner."
>
> "We congratulate the Vorbis team on their dedication to develop an open
> source audio format with high quality sound and low cost licensing," said
> Steve Grady, vice president of marketing for EMusic.com (Nasdaq: EMUS),
the
> Internet's leading seller of downloadable music.  "We support all efforts
to
> make downloadable music easier and more accessible to consumers."
>
> Vorbis has excellent sound quality and cutting edge features, including
fast
> bitrate scaling, surround channels and sample granularity seek and decode.
> Software is available to encode and decode on the Windows 95/98/NT, BeOS,
> Linux, Solaris, and *BSD platforms.  Plugins are also available for most
> popular MP3 players.
>
> Vorbis 1.0 is expected to be released in approximately one month.  To find
> more information on Vorbis, including samples and details on how to
support
> it in your content or media player, visit the beta site at: www.vorbis.com
>
>
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