Top 15 Vorbis Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same competitive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to, but higher performance than MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (TwinVQ), WMA and PAC.

1. LAME

LAME LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL. It is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR. Both quality and speed improvements are still happening, probably making LAME the only MP3 encoder still being actively developed.Mike Cheng started it......

2. TAK

TAK »TAK – [T]om’s lossless [a]udio [k]ompressor / [T]oms verlustfreier [A]udio[k]ompressor – is, as the name already suggests, a lossless audio compressor, similar to FLAC, WavPack and Monkey’s Audio. On average, lossless compression reduces the file size to about 50 percent of the original size; however the compression can vary between......

3. WavPack

WavPack WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. Although the technology is loosely based on previous versions of WavPack, the new version 4 format has been designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled performance and functionality.WavPack features include:- Compatible......

4. Matroska

Matroska The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows.......

5. FLAC

FLAC FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio,......

6. ALL2LAME

ALL2LAME [No longer maintained, but downloadable] ALL2LAME is a free Windows front-end for the LAME MP3 encoder. It's very easy to use: 1. Choose the files you want to encode. 2. Set the LAME switches. 3. Press the Encode button. That's all there is to it :-)ALL2LAME is pretty useless without......

7. Opus Interactive Audio Codec

Opus Interactive Audio Codec Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet, but also intended for storage and streaming applications. It is standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as RFC 6716 which incorporated technology from Skype's SILK codec......

8. Apple Lossless

Apple Lossless Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a – this extension is also used by Apple for AAC audio data in an MP4 container......

9. Sound Byte

Sound Byte Sound Byte is a computerized cart rack machine for the Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad - play AIFF, WAVE, mp3, and other sound files at the click of a mouse. Sound Byte is perfect for:Radio, podcast and TV productions - have ads, announcements, songs and sound effects at your fingertipsTheater......

10. Soundboard

Soundboard Like the cart machines from broadcast radio days, Soundboard provides a quick way to enhance your podcasts or broadcasts with sound clips, effects, or musical accompaniment.Soundboard lets you create libraries of your favorite audio clips, all instantly available by tapping hot keys on your Macs keyboard. Drag in any Mac......

11. I Am T-Pain

I Am T-Pain This changes your voice from everyday ordinally to robotically Ke$ha/T-Pain-like. Lots of artists use Auto-Tune for example: T-Pain (duh), Lady Gaga, Ke$ha (it's obvious), Victoria Justice (obvious, sometimes), and more. This is a great app to be using.......

12. MP3 Skype Recorder

MP3 Skype Recorder MP3 Skype Recorder is a free program which automatically records all your Skype conversations (including conferences). It stores your conversations locally in files using compact and very popular MP3 format. The tool can record P2P Skype calls and SkypeOut calls as well as calls to Skype Online number. The program......

13. Tiny Tab

Tiny Tab It's a music tool. It's extremely simple, and that's the main difference for similar apps.It searches the web for music tablatures and chords of any instrument (powered by Google Custom Search Engine) and display them cleanly together with Youtube results so you can optionally play along with audio. You can......

14. eMastered

eMastered Online audio & music mastering made by Grammy Winning engineers. Master your track instantly with just a click and have your choice to download high resolution MP3 or WAV files.......

15. TrailerTrax

TrailerTrax Are you a media producer or music supervisor?We are essentially a production music library with thousands of tracks in all genres for all media formats. We also offer custom scoring. As a media client, you simply submit a custom brief and receive customised music within hours.We have some of the......