All,

I've acquired permission to make a moderately sized collection of music (800-1000 tracks - I've not counted them yet) available on Gnutella. Nothing terribly exciting, mostly live performances by professional but less-well known artists, but it'll eke the percentage of legit content that little bit closer to a level acceptable to the lawmakers.

The collection is currently in a proprietary high quality format unsuitable for sharing. My first instinct would be to to offer them as low quality (~120kbps) and medium quality (~240kbps) Ogg Vorbis files. However, a quick search pulled up very few examples of the format on the Gnet, it's pretty much mp3 as far as the eye can see. Is the mp3 format so ubiquitous that it's worth paying the license fees to use, or is the free Ogg Vorbis format acceptable ?

All opinions welcome.