That's purely subjective. They're both lossy formats and assuming q8 versus
v0 you'd be hard pressed to hear the difference, particularly on the average
setup of computer speakers/cheap audio chipsets/cheap headphones. That said,
I believe there are some podcasts offering their download in ogg format.
(The Linux Action Show for example.) One issue with this however, is that
iTunes is probably the most common podcast aggregator.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM, SMC
<[email protected]<smc%[email protected]>
> wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 August 2009 13:14:23 Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
> > On 8/17/09, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > It would probably be more effective to find humorous comedy bits
> > > online and e-mail them out to friends and family, after converting it
> > > to ogg.  Then provide a link for windows and/or mac users to download
> > > an ogg player to hear it.
> >
> > Exactly.  In fact SOM has been advocating this for a year now:
> > http://spreadopenmedia.org/campaigns/share-the-funnies/
> >
> > -Ivo
>
> Another potential outlet would be "oggcasts" (c.f. "podcast").  In addition
> to
> an "enclosed" Ogg Vorbis audio file (or Ogg Theora video) a page with an
> embedded <audio> tag for playing it right in the browser might have some
> appeal.  Certainly, for the same file size, the Ogg Vorbis audio sounds
> better
> to me than the "standard" mp3 files...
>
>
>

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