Comment 25 for bug 528910

@Ryan: While I agree that more people should be educated about Open Standards such as Vorbis, we, as people who use and endorse these standards, are a long shot off them becoming mainstream. And while it is true that an increasing number of devices are supporting OGG, the majority of devices do not. And chances are, that a user who is new to or even an existing user of Ubuntu, will have an iPod or other device that doesn't play Vorbis.

Also, the power in this really lies with the record companies that distribute their content on 7Digital. Canonical as a business, is in no way big enough or powerful enough to be in a position to ask record companies or 7Digital to ask for Vorbis content. It's possible that Canonical are lucky enough to have 7Digital as a partner as-is.

It's also worth mentioning that while the downloads from the U1MS will be MP3, that's not to say that there isn't software available that can convert it to OGG. SoundConverter is a very good application at converting audio at high bitrates, to and fro MP3/Vorbis/FLAC/AAC.