| − | The '''Free Lossless Audio Codec''', abbreviated as FLAC, is, as the name suggests, an [[open source|open-source]] [[lossless]] digital [[audio codec]], and purports itself to be the fastest, most widely supported lossless audio codec.<ref>http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html</ref> FLAC has been incorporated under the banner of the [[Xiph.org Foundation]], along with [[Ogg Vorbis|Vorbis]], [[Speex]], [[Theora]] and others. | + | The '''Free Lossless Audio Codec''', abbreviated as FLAC, is, as the name suggests, an [[open source|open-source]] [[lossless]] digital audio codec, and purports itself to be the fastest, most widely supported lossless audio codec.<ref>http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html</ref> FLAC has been incorporated under the banner of the Xiph.org Foundation, along with [[Ogg Vorbis|Vorbis]], Speex, Theora and others. |
| − | '''Vorbis''', commonly known as Ogg Vorbis, due to the common use of [[Ogg]] as a containment wrapper for Vorbis, is an [[open source|open-source]] audio compression codec which is capable of delivering greater audio quality at a lower file size than does [[MP3]]. Vorbis is also free of the aggressive copyright policy that MP3 is licensed under, which forces software writers to pay a fee to be able to legally write and distribute software that is capable of encoding audio as MP3. | + | '''Vorbis''', commonly known as Ogg Vorbis, due to the common use of Ogg as a containment wrapper for Vorbis, is an [[open source|open-source]] audio compression codec which is capable of delivering greater audio quality at a lower file size than does [[MP3]]. Vorbis is also free of the aggressive copyright policy that MP3 is licensed under, which forces software writers to pay a fee to be able to legally write and distribute software that is capable of encoding audio as MP3. |