[Vorbis] still developed?

[Greg Wooledge]

Mihai Badila (dx at teamevolve.ro) wrote:

>  Sorry for asking, but libogg and libvorbis especially are still developed?
> No updates from september 2004.
> 
>  I just need to know if I have to move to FLAC [which is actively maintained]
> to store my CDs.

Vorbis and FLAC are different codecs and they serve different needs.
Vorbis is lossy, and is great for storing and transferring music in
environments where space is at a premium (e.g. portable players, or
streaming over the Internet).  FLAC is lossless and is great for archival
storage.

You can store your music on large hard drives in FLAC format and then
encode from FLAC into (lossy) Vorbis for your portables at need.  Since
the FLAC files are lossless, you'll never need to rip the CDs again.

-- 
Greg Wooledge                  |   "Truth belongs to everybody."
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