Tag archive 'Multimedia'

Ogg extensions in the wild

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-09-17

FLAC 1.2.1 was released a few hours ago. Among the changes was a new file extensions for the Ogg FLAC format. The new .oga (audio/ogg) extension is a part of Xiph's new file extension and MIME type specification for their media formats. FLAC's implementation is one of the very first seen in the wild.

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OGG is for metadata too

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-09-07

OGG is a media container format. But it is also supposed to contain metadata; information describing the media it contains. But there is no standard at all for including metadata in OGG containers. I want to change that.

Update: Got it's own page on the Xiph wiki. Continued entry »

Digital media is broken

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-17

All the competing multimedia players, formats, and codecs have broken digital multimedia. Is it really necessary to have this many media players, add-ons, and codecs installed to be able to open videos and music? And what about my files in ten years?
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Kompoz - Open Source Music

Words by Guy Snir on 2007-06-27

For several weeks I have been thinking about an idea and amusing myself with the thought of realizing it.

Basically I was thinking of a way to apply Open Source concepts to music production. My vision was of:
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