That is, until an eagle meaning to make a meal of him drops him into the Citadel in Omnia, where he lands in a garden. The problem is, he has somehow manifested as a diminutive tortoise and nobody he speaks to can hear him. The time for the 8 th prophet to be revealed is close at hand and Om has manifested himself in physical form on the Disc to seek out his new chosen one.
This novel in question is set a century before the usual present day and focuses on the land of Omnia, a powerful and oppressive theocracy that worships and acknowledges only one god: The Great God Om. I still use Vorbis as my default lossy audio format even though Opus is superior, but I'll switch over to it once it becomes more popular.Small Gods by Terry Pratchett is the 13 th novel in the comic fantasy Discworld series, and the second standalone novel belonging to a small, loosely connected group of novels that cover specific, lesser-known cultures of the Disc. Not too long after, not liking the idea of permanently losing song quality, I switched to FLAC for all of my CD ripping, but I continued to use Vorbis for my DAPs in order to fit more music. When I bought my first digital audio player, I specifically choose one with native Vorbis support. So I started ripping my CD library to Vorbis and began only using software which had Vorbis support. I tend to prefer free software over expensive or limited proprietary software, especially when it's just as good or better. However, in the mid-2000s I discovered Vorbis. It uses the file extension "OGG" because it was the first format designed to use the Ogg media container. Vorbis is named after a character from the Discworld novels. Regardless, both formats have now been superseded by the vastly superior Opus format. It's more difficult to implement, it doesn't have native album art support, at its meta tagging system is unique. Also, it was designed with variable bit encoding by default, so it compresses much better than a similar format like MP3 at constant bit rate (although MP3 can use VBR).Īlthough Vorbis compresses better than MP3 and typically won sound quality listening tests, the format has several shortcomings that prevented it from ever overtaking MP3 in popularity.
The compression algorithm used in Vorbis is completely patent free, unlike similar formats like MP3. Vorbis is a free open source lossy audio encoding format designed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and first release on.
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