Updated: Sep 29/23

Organizations

  • Rarewares ogg, mp3 tools
  • 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
  • 23bps: oggenc -q1.2 --resample 12000 --downmix, voice only mono for audiobooks or speaking
  • Vorbis encoding is dynamic, above bitrates are a midpoint. File may be higher or lower based on composition.