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Windows

added on 2001-07-07 15:53:54.00
This program can convert, encode, and decode many types of files, including Ogg Vorbis.
added on 2002-09-25 03:57:23.55
Aeliom is a tool to create and to explore in real time virtual landscapes. With version 1.1 of Aeliom, the 3D sound engine includes Ogg Vorbis support.
added on 2002-03-22 10:48:23.10
Andromeda turns collections of Oggs and other files into easy-to-use, streaming web sites. It's great as a personal jukebox, over local networks, and even over the Internet.
added on 2001-09-12 14:38:03.00
The Apollo General Audio Player for Windows now has Ogg Vorbis support via a downloadable plugin
added on 2002-08-29 19:42:40.05
This player supports over 20 major audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, with many more supported via free plug-ins. It can even play various video formats.
added on 2002-06-08 11:32:11.67
Audacity is a free audio editor for Linux, Mac and Windows. It can import, mix, play, and record audio in multiple formats, including Ogg Vorbis. It has a variety of plugins and effects.
added on 2001-09-19 07:35:15.00
The Audio Conversion Wizard converts audio files from one format to another. It supports single and batch mode as well as MP3, WMA 8 (Windows Media Audio), OGG Vorbis and WAV PCM formats, with ID3v2 copying and creation.
added on 2001-09-19 07:29:12.00
Audiograbber is a CD ripping program with features such as normalizing, silence deletion and support for many external codecs, including Ogg Vorbis.
added on 2002-10-29 01:52:30.77
Blaze Media Pro is powerful, all-in-one multimedia software supporting playback of all popular media formats, audio and video playlist, audio and video conversions, video construction and decompiling, audio editing and recording, audio and data CD recording, video processing (average, brightness, contrast, gamma, edge enhance, sharpen, soften, resizing, resample, dither, add border), video capture, media management... and of course Ogg.
added on 2003-03-30 05:29:38.11
CAJUN is a project to turn an old computer you might have kicking around into the centerpiece of your car or home audio system.
added on 2001-06-30 22:26:22.00
CD-DA X-Tractor is a ripper/encoder for Windows that support Vorbis, intelligent jitter correction, CDDB support and is Open Source.
added on 2001-09-12 14:59:03.00
CDex is an open source, full-featured Windows app that rips audio CDs directly to Ogg Vorbis format.
added on 2002-11-06 09:55:14.21
This is a file filter that adds read and write Ogg Vorbis support to Cool Edit 96/2000/Pro for Windows without having to use an external application or an extra step to encode or decode Ogg Vorbis files.
added on 2001-06-30 22:32:06.00
An audio convertor and an audio player, both supporting Ogg Vorbis files
added on 2001-06-30 22:34:40.00
DJ Mix Lite is designed to play continuous music with cross fading, beat matching mixes between songs. Use your Ogg files to be a DJ.
added on 2001-06-30 22:36:12.00
Be a DJ with Vorbis! DJ Mix Pro is designed to let you choose the songs while it performs by itself quality cross fading, beat matching mixes between songs. DJ Mix Pro has built in Beatlock Technology, that makes it beat-aware. This technology does not alter your sound files, it just analyses them to find the BPM.
added on 2002-11-15 10:40:05.26
The DJ-Workstation is a player application for DJ-mixing. It supports multiple soundcards, streams with pitch-shifting, and real time time-stretching, autoplaying, autocueing, assignable cross-fading, etc.
added on 2002-06-26 22:36:57.10
DeliPlayer is a multi format, free audio player for Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000 and Windows XP. Vorbis is one of the many formats that it supports.
added on 2001-06-30 23:25:40.00
A windows ripper/encoder that support Ogg Vorbis.
added on 2003-02-13 06:43:19.16
EAC is a high quality audio CD ripper for Windows with a large number of options and features. It supports Ogg Vorbis.
added on 2001-10-20 20:19:34.00
A powerful and easy-to-use tool for converting your audio-CD collection to variety of most popular compressed audio formats now also includes Ogg Vorbis.
added on 2003-02-27 13:53:32.13
foobar2000 offers best-of-breed masstagging and comment display formatting for Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Speex.
updated on 2007-06-18 15:15:37.00
FreeRip 3 is a ripper/encoder (freeware with sponsored search results) that includes native Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, comments and CDDB support.
added on 2001-06-30 22:43:10.00
GoldWave is a digital audio editor that can import and export Ogg Vorbis as well as convert from other file formats. A fully functional demonstration version is available.
added on 2002-04-01 13:49:38.15
Groove Mechanic is software for encoding audio from vinyl LP along with sophisticated filtering to eliminate clicking, popping, scratching and rumble. Groove mechanic can output to WAV, Ogg or MP3.
added on 2003-04-27 10:39:19.15
Harmony Assistant, "The All In One Music Software", is Melody Assistant's big brother.
added on 2003-03-31 09:35:22.41
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. It can also hanlde multimedia files, such as Vorbis.
added on 2001-06-30 22:45:25.00
File format convertor that supports 291 file formats, including Vorbis.
added on 2001-06-30 22:49:03.00
A music organizer, encoder, player for Windows that supports Winamp skins.
added on 2003-04-27 10:32:53.80
Melody Assistant bills itself as "The most complete music composition shareware ever".
added on 2002-02-05 06:56:24.00
Mpxplay is a DOS (yes, that's right... DOS!) audio player with Ogg support. AudioCV is the companion DOS encoder... also with Ogg support.
added on 2002-07-31 10:40:37.00
MusiCutter is an audio joiner/cutter that supports Vorbis (without need to decode and reencode). Cut points can be imported from CUE sheets, XMCD files, or plain text.
added on 2003-02-13 06:22:37.74
Muzikbrowzer is an audio file player application that runs on Windows 2000 and XP and is designed for an entertainment PC. It has playlist management, tag editing, and can use a remote control.
added on 2003-05-06 06:52:43.94
Vorbis, FLAC and Speex plugins for Nero Burning ROM, right here.
added on 2002-10-29 01:37:44.25
German GUI front end for vorbiscomment.exe. Visual Basic source (GPL) and binaries both available for download.
added on 2001-10-20 20:21:36.00
A DSP plugin for Winamp which allows you to use Winamp as a source to icecast2, thusly allowing you to create a vorbis stream.
added on 2002-02-05 16:08:44.00
What the title says. Allowed Ogg encoding and playback in all MacOS and Win32 apps that use Apple Quicktime. As of early 2006 this software does not work well on Quicktime 7. Use XiphQT instead.
added on 2001-06-30 23:29:04.00
These filters/plugins will allow you to play Ogg Vorbis files in Windows Media Player, as well as use Vorbis in many other DirectX applications. [This project is no longer being maintained.]
added on 2002-07-16 15:01:12.55
OggDropXPd is an encoder/decoder/player for the experienced user. It has quality and bitrate management modes and features such as gain, resampling, downmixing, and tagging control.
added on 2002-07-19 17:06:51.02
OggDS is a collection of Direct Show filters for Windows Media Player that supports Ogg streams and Vorbis audio playback and encoding, as well as splitting and multiplexing. [This project is no longer being maintained.]
added on 2003-10-26 15:59:32.89
Predixis MusicMagic Mixer supports both Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files and offers a dynamic playlist generator.
added on 2002-06-15 10:54:29.51
QuakeForge is a 3D graphics game engine based on id Software's legendary Quake and QuakeWorld game engine. They aim to improve the state of the game by improving the engine and making it accessable to the largest number of players.
added on 2001-06-30 22:51:18.00
A nice looking media player that support Vorbis.
added on 2002-04-01 19:25:59.71
RipTrax is a CD ripping application that reads CD audio data into Ogg Vorbis and WAV, among other formats. RipTrax supports CD audio C2 hardware error flag reading, allowing it to report additional information on whether or not a CD rip suffers from media damage.
added on 2002-10-28 23:38:20.99
SnackAmp is a multi-platform music player with normal music player abilities, multi-user support and a powerful auto-play list feature. Currently mp3, wav, ogg vorbis, and many other sound files are indexed by SnackAmp depending on user preferences. Both Tcl/Tk scripts and stand-alone executables (for Windows and Linux) are available.
added on 2001-06-30 23:13:18.00
A unique looking media player for Windows that supports shaped skins and of course, Ogg Vorbis.
added on 2003-01-08 13:43:33.14
This app is a user friendly, fast ripper for Ogg Vorbis. Get's Cd information from FreeDB. Runs on on Linux and Windows. OS X support being developed.
added on 2002-05-01 22:32:34.56
tOGGer is a Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP program for mass tagging Vorbis Ogg audio files. It is released under the GNU General Public License.
added on 2003-02-13 06:29:40.68
Total Recorder records streaming audio, Mic input, Line-in input as well as CDs and DVDs. The resulting files are saved on your computer's hard-drive. The latest version supports Vorbis.
added on 2003-06-16 13:44:41.19
Virtuosa can play Ogg Vorbis files through a plugin available on their file format plugins page.
added on 2001-06-30 22:55:26.00
VorbisExt is a property sheet shell extension that can edit the comments in vorbis (.ogg) files and display information about vorbis files. This app integrates Vorbis Comments right into your Windows desktop!
added on 2005-08-20
VUPlayer is a freeware multi-format audio player for Windows.
added on 2001-06-30 23:14:04.00
One of the original MP3 players has been updated to play Ogg Vorbis files.
added on 2002-11-03 20:08:13.18
WinCD is a multimedia player for Windows. It is able to play CDs, Ogg-Vorbis, MP3, and Wave-files. The play-back speed is changeable. The software also can digitally extract CD-Tracks and encode them into MP3. WinCD supports FreeDB and ID3-Tags.
added on 2001-06-30 22:57:08.00
A CD ripper/encoder with plugins available for Ogg Vorbis.
added on 2006-03-23 00:57:44
These are the official quicktime components, allowing Ogg file playback in all MacOS and Win32 apps that use Apple Quicktime.
added on 2001-11-13 18:09:28.00
XMPlay is a Windows music player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U playlists.
added on 2001-06-30 22:39:37.00
The Zinf audio player is a simple, but powerful audio player for Linux and Win32. It supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV and Audio CD playback, SHOUTcast/Icecast HTTP streaming, RTP streaming, a powerful music browser, theme support and a download manager.

Windows Development

added on 2001-10-20 20:12:13.00
BASS is a sound system for use in Windows software; it provides developers with a set of powerful yet easy to use sample streams (Ogg Vorbis, WAV, etc.) and audio CD playback functions. BASS also allows 3D positioning of samples, streams and MOD music and supports A3D and EAX.
added on 2001-06-30 23:07:08.00
A game development suite for Windows and Linux that supports Ogg Vorbis files.
added on 2001-06-30 23:08:39.00
FMOD is the fastest, most powerful and easiest to use sound system on Windows and Linux there is. Supporting 3d sound, midi, mods, mp3, ogg vorbis, wma, recording, geometry processing, cd playback, mmx, internet streaming, dsp effects, user created samples and streams, synchronization support, EAX 1&2, A3D 3.0, C/C++/VB/Delphi/MASM and MORE you cant go wrong!
added on 2001-06-30 23:29:04.00
These filters/plugins will allow you to play Ogg Vorbis files in Windows Media Player, as well as use Vorbis in many other DirectX applications. [This project is no longer being maintained.]
added on 2002-07-19 17:06:51.02
OggDS is a collection of Direct Show filters for Windows Media Player that supports Ogg streams and Vorbis audio playback and encoding, as well as splitting and multiplexing. [This project is no longer being maintained.]

Mac OS X

added on 2001-09-19 07:31:31.00
Amadeus II is a powerful tool designed to manipulate, create and analyze sounds. It is available in English, French and German and supports the Ogg Vorbis format.
added on 2002-03-22 10:48:23.10
Andromeda turns collections of Oggs and other files into easy-to-use, streaming web sites. It's great as a personal jukebox, over local networks, and even over the Internet.
added on 2002-06-08 11:32:11.67
Audacity is a free audio editor for Linux, Mac and Windows. It can import, mix, play, and record audio in multiple formats, including Ogg Vorbis. It has a variety of plugins and effects.
added on 2001-06-30 22:14:57.00
Play, Encode, And Perform with Style. This player for MacOS and MacOS X work great with Vorbis files.
added on 2003-04-27 10:39:19.15
Harmony Assistant, "The All In One Music Software", is Melody Assistant's big brother.
added on 2002-07-31 11:09:33.26
MacAmp Lite is a MacOS X audio player that supports several formats, plugins, and is easily skinnable. It can also encode to Ogg Vorbis and be used as a source client for streaming.
added on 2003-04-27 10:32:53.80
Melody Assistant bills itself as "The most complete music composition shareware ever".
added on 2001-09-21 08:11:54.00
Mint Audio is a lightweight shareware audio player for MacOS and OS X that supports Ogg Vorbis playback.
added on 2001-06-30 22:22:45.00
Ogg Drop will encode audio tracks and CD's into vorbis. It also contains a QuickTime component that allows iTunes to] play ogg vorbis files. Ogg Drop is entirely free.
added on 2002-02-05 16:08:44.00
What the title says. Allows Ogg encoding and playback in all MacOS and Win32 apps that use Apple Quicktime. As of early 2006 this software does not work well on Quicktime 7. Use XiphQT instead.

Mac OS 9 (and earlier)

added on 2001-06-30 22:14:57.00
Play, Encode, And Perform with Style. This player for MacOS and MacOS X work great with Vorbis files.
added on 2003-04-27 10:39:19.15
Harmony Assistant, "The All In One Music Software", is Melody Assistant's big brother.
added on 2003-04-27 10:32:53.80
Melody Assistant bills itself as "The most complete music composition shareware ever".
added on 2001-09-21 08:11:54.00
Mint Audio is a lightweight shareware audio player for MacOS and OS X that supports Ogg Vorbis playback.
added on 2001-06-30 22:19:24.00
A high quality Vorbis encoder for MacOS. Free download available.
added on 2001-06-30 22:22:45.00
Ogg Drop is a freeware application that will encode AIFF and AIFC (.aif) sound files into an Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) stream. It's also an Ogg file player! Just Drag-n-Drop! Works in MacOS 9 and X. The latest release now includes the 1.0 and Jaguar support.
added on 2002-02-05 16:08:44.00
What the title says. Allows Ogg encoding and playback in all MacOS and Win32 apps that use Apple Quicktime. Not recommended for MacOS X.

Linux

added on 2001-09-19 07:44:52.00
AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries to exercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players. The goal is to create a fully pluggable framework for playback of all sorts of media with the focus on PCM audio data.
added on 2002-03-22 10:48:23.10
Andromeda turns collections of Oggs and other files into easy-to-use, streaming web sites. It's great as a personal jukebox, over local networks, and even over the Internet.
added on 2002-06-08 11:32:11.67
Audacity is a free audio editor for Linux, Mac and Windows. It can import, mix, play, and record audio in multiple formats, including Ogg Vorbis. It has a variety of plugins and effects.
added on 2003-03-30 05:29:38.11
CAJUN is a project to turn an old computer you might have kicking around into the centerpiece of your car or home audio system.
added on 2002-11-03 20:23:29.96
Crip is a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool for making Ogg Vorbis files. It is capable of doing group normalization (adjust the volume to be as loud as possible without losing information), group labelling, and CDDB.
added on 2001-06-30 23:00:17.00
A popular ripper/encoder/tagger for Linux that supports Vorbis. Supports CDDB and has a built in CD player.
added on 2002-01-02 01:12:45.00
GStreamer allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple Ogg Vorbis playback to audio mixing and video processing. Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently.
added on 2003-01-05 05:41:45.66
GiantDisc is a package of software tools released under the GPL; it consists of Linux server scripts to manage and play MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files in addition to a Palm remote control application which controls the audio server.
added on 2001-09-19 07:39:31.00
Korbis is a KDE front end for cdparanoia and oggenc
added on 2001-06-30 23:01:50.00
A KDE media player that supports Ogg Vorbis.
added on 2001-09-19 07:41:54.00
Ogg Vorbis Player is a GTK+ based Vorbis File player. Current features are standard Play/Pause, FF, Rewind, etc. buttons. Graphical Output Levels. Planned features include Playlists and Streaming Internet audio. Requires SDL 1.1.8+, libogg, libvorbis
added on 2002-06-15 10:54:29.51
QuakeForge is a 3D graphics game engine based on id Software's legendary Quake and QuakeWorld game engine. They aim to improve the state of the game by improving the engine and making it accessable to the largest number of players.
added on 2004-01-21 00:03:25.04
The Helix Player is RealNetworks's Helix Community Project's player for UNIX (Linux and BSD included). Today, it supports Ogg Vorbis and Theora (as you'd expect) as well as Real's own formats, MPEG and pretty much any other kind of audio/video media you can think of.
added on 2006-03-22 01:02:31
These are plugins to allow streaming of the free Ogg formats with RealNetworks's Real Player and Real Producer. Part of the open Helix Community effort.
added on 2002-11-15 08:28:03.11
RipperX is a GTK program to rip CD audio and encode in Ogg Vorbis format, among others. It can rip and encode in parallel and supports cdparanoia.
added on 2002-10-28 23:38:20.99
SnackAmp is a multi-platform music player with normal music player abilities, multi-user support and a powerful auto-play list feature. Currently mp3, wav, ogg vorbis, and many other sound files are indexed by SnackAmp depending on user preferences. Both Tcl/Tk scripts and stand-alone executables (for Windows and Linux) are available.
added on 2001-09-19 07:38:09.00
s.q.u.e.l.c.h is an Ogg Vorbis audio player. It features a sophisticated, innovative playlist manager and an integrated Vorbis tag editor.
added on 2002-12-01 16:04:33.61
Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3 (read only), with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins.
added on 2003-01-08 13:43:33.14
This app is a user friendly, fast ripper for Ogg Vorbis. Get's Cd information from FreeDB. Runs on on Linux and Windows. OS X support being developed.
added on 2001-06-30 23:02:55.00
A GUI Ogg Vorbis comment editor for the Linux operating system. Vocoditor is written in Perl and uses GTK.
added on 2001-06-30 23:03:45.00
The most popular media player for Linux. XMMS plays vorbis files, allows ogg comments, and supports vorbis streams.
added on 2006-03-23 00:57:44
These are the official quicktime components, allowing Ogg file playback in all MacOS and Win32 apps that use Apple Quicktime.
added on 2002-12-13 20:53:58.01
Xmcd, is a CD player program that now also supports CD ripping to Ogg Vorbis and other formats. For Ogg Vorbis, xmcd links directly with the vorbis libraries for best performance and integration.
added on 2001-06-30 22:39:37.00
The Zinf audio player is a simple, but powerful audio player for Linux and Win32. It supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV and Audio CD playback, SHOUTcast/Icecast HTTP streaming, RTP streaming, a powerful music browser, theme support and a download manager.

Linux Development

added on 2001-06-30 23:07:08.00
A game development suite for Windows and Linux that supports Ogg Vorbis files.
added on 2001-06-30 23:08:39.00
FMOD is the fastest, most powerful and easiest to use sound system on Windows and Linux there is. Supporting 3d sound, midi, mods, mp3, ogg vorbis, wma, recording, geometry processing, cd playback, mmx, internet streaming, dsp effects, user created samples and streams, synchronization support, EAX 1&2, A3D 3.0, C/C++/VB/Delphi/MASM and MORE you cant go wrong!
added on 2002-01-02 01:12:45.00
GStreamer allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple Ogg Vorbis playback to audio mixing and video processing. Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently.

Java

added on 2003-04-27 10:27:10.19
FreedomAudio is a webpage streaming audio player with XML playlist support and the ability to synchronize the display of information in the browser.
added on 2006-03-29 17:19:00.00
JavaTunes is a small Vorbis and MP3 Jukebox with Karaoke/Covers/Last.fm/Lock
added on 2003-04-27 10:11:59.93
J-Ogg is a collection of Pure Java libraries for demuxing Ogg files and decoding different contained formats; at the moment Ogg Vorbis and Ogg FLAC are supported.
added on 2001-09-25 14:54:08.00
jlGui is a 100% Java graphical music player, winamp skin compliant, that supports MP3,WAV, AU, AIFF and OGG VORBIS. It's free and open source (GPL).
added on 2001-06-30 23:26:59.00
An open source platform independant Graphical Vorbis Ogg Player! Developed using Java, so if your system has a Java VM you can use this app.
added on 2001-06-30 23:05:31.00
A pure java Ogg Vorbis decoder and player. Now you can play Ogg files in your web browser.
added on 2001-09-21 08:21:35.00
An Ogg Vorbis SPI (Service Provider Interface) for Java based on the JOrbis library, a "Vorbis Driver" that could be plugged to ANY Java music player. This project is free and open source

OS/2

added on 2001-06-30 23:11:44.00
Player, encoder, plugins for Ogg Vorbis on OS/2 operating systems.

BeOS

added on 2001-06-30 23:10:39.00
Encoder, decoder and Cl-Amp plugin for Ogg Vorbis for BeOS.