Audio Format Links - MP3, MP3Pro, VQF, WMA and OGG

Here you’ll find homepage-links to all related programms and manufacturers

Homepages

- On the Microsoft Windows Media 8 homepage you can find numerous information about Microsoft’s new codecs
- The official OGG Vorbis homepage with up-to-date plugins, encoders, etc.
- A lot of technical information about MP3 can be found on the official Fraunhofer MP3-homepage
- The official mp3PRO-homepage with a lot of basic information about mp3PRO
- The AAC-format that was also developed by Fraunhofer is thoroughly described and presented on the official AAC homepage
- First Principles Homepage contains a detailed, technical comparison of AAC, MP3 and TwinVQ
- A lot of information about MP3,mp3PRO and AAC can also be found on the MPEG-ORG AAC homepage
- Information about MP3, mp3PRO and AAC on MP3-Tech.org
- Monkey’s Audio homepage contains a description of the new format, an encoder, player and of course a lot of information about the lossless compression

Encoders

Audio Conversion Wizard at Litexmedia.com
Windows Media 8 Encoder at Microsoft
Homepage of the Windows Media 8 Encoder Frontend/GUI
Thomson mp3PRO Encoder at mp3PRO.com
TwinVQ Encoder at VQF.com
AAC-Encoder at DailyMP3.com

Players

Windows Media Player at Microsoft
One of the most popular software-players is WinAmp, that’s partly due to the numerous plugins by which the player can be enhanced
The K-Jöfol MP3, VQF, AAC-Player is not developed anymore, however the last version can be downloaded free of charge
WinAmp AAC-PlugIn at DailyMP3.com

Author of this article:
Jens Adrian