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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why is OGG Vorbis not good stuff? It makes smaller files then MP3 with a better quality sound and it's free.
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OGG Vorbis' failure is that of any superior-but-sidelined technology. Yes the quality is good, and yes it's good that the format is open, but Vorbis is not well enough known. Adding this functionality to a device would be:
a) A shout out to geeks - basically you're making lots of friends in a demographic that doesn't really care about your device.
b) An unnecessary expense. You're spending money to have your developers add a feature to a device that only a vast minority of users will ever use, or even understand. MP3 is a de-facto standard, it was most common compression format in the beginning. AAC only got ground because Apple, who had the largest foothold in the market, implemented it (Mostly to get away from MP3 licensing, I suspect.)
It's not that OGG Vorbis is not as good a format, it just doesn't make sense from a business perspective.