Updated: Jul 14/18

Organizations

  • Xiph Foundation developer of Ogg, Vorbis, Flac and other multimedia formats. Download of tools/players
  • Ogg Vorbis News and info on format
  • Icecast broadcasting system that streams music in Ogg Vorbis.
  • Free Software Foundation play ogg
  • Hydrogen Wiki

    Sound files

  • Freepats system sounds
  • Piano-midi classical
  • Wikimedia midi ebook speech music
  • Wikipedia

    Music streaming

  • Ogg friendly sites
  • Xiph radio list
  • Musicgoal

    Encoding examples

  • 192bps: oggenc -q6, for music only
  • 224bps: oggenc -q7 --resample 44100, singing music files
  • 20bps: oggenc -q0 --resample 12000 --downmix, voice only mono as ebook
  • Vorbis encoding is dynamic, above bitrates are a midpoint. File may be higher or lower based on composition.