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comment by I_-_I
I_-_I  ·  3407 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski the game

ogg is just a container. The main advantage it has is that most of the formats it uses compress well enough, without being encumbered by patents and licenses unlike MP3. Wav is uncompressed, and as such takes up way more space than necessary. In most cases, humans won't be able to tell the difference between the lossless format and a lossy one, so it makes no sense to bloat release sizes with uncompressed/FLAC-like files.