From the press release about Volvo's two new digital audio gadgets, one of which is a "digital jukebox":



I like how they say "the professional standard, Ogg Vorbis".



Now if only I could afford the car, to begin with...

Edit: Full press release here.

Edit 2: I have to add that I'm really impressed by Volvo to jump on to the bandwagon like this and get the formats part right on their first attempt!

Edit 3: Just noticed that it has support for FLAC too! Details

PhatNoise has already worked with several car brands before.

Look here:
http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalm...ayers/index.php

From what I've read about it before, the PhatBox is a pretty sweet device. As you already mentioned, it supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC. And AFAIK, it even has gapless playback.

Yeah, so I gather. Well, all the better! Now if only people knew more of the benefits of Ogg...

Professional standard <= Me likes It is great that free and open-source is making it's way into our lives.

Even me old mp3 zealot switches to Vorbis. I like i now use "THE" professional standard

Ehm... what kind of professionals use Vorbis, or any particular lossy format? >:)

Now you're just spoiling all the fun.


Edit: I guess they're maybe referring to the fact that Ogg Vorbis nowadays is used for many games, etc?

It makes me want a Volvo. Indeed the car manufacturers are seriously behind. Personally I think sooner or later anyone wanting to shift players have to support MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG. Unless you are a huge company with unlimited marketing hype like Apple of course.

Triza

I think it's more because some audio pro software uses Ogg Vorbis, i.e. Sound Forge, Makie's Tracktion...

Ok. Didn't know.

As I knopw the new VW Golf's audio will also support Ogg Vorbis.

nice