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> It is interesting that 15 years later, with Ogg Vorbis not only providing better audio quality at a given bitrate, and Opus apparently even better, MP3 is still abundant.

MP3 requires far less memory to decode than Ogg Vorbis does. This was a big deal at the time as RAM cells added cost to the MP3 decoders.

Now, with CELT (which later became the Opus codec) this was not true. But it took a long time to get there.



Comparing Vorbis to MP3 nowadays doesn't make a lot of sense. Compare it to AAC.




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