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darkwater 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG

Pre-Spotify (and pre-iPod) there were plenty of cheap MP3 players that also supported Ogg Vorbis. I owned one, for example. Obviously MP3 was THE standard, but Vorbis reached a good adoption HW wise (basically because it was free as in beer to implement)

scott_w 11 months ago [–]

I also owned one but I had to look for it. It certainly wasn’t “widely supported.”

darkwater 11 months ago | [–]

Have a look at audio hardware from 10-15 ago (so long after the mp3 player wave ended in first world countries) but basically everything that plays mp3 plays ogg vorbis as well.

scott_w 11 months ago | | [–]

So after it became relevant?

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