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===2007=== On May 16, 2007, the [[Free Software Foundation]] started a campaign to increase the use of Vorbis "as an ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to the proprietary MP3 format".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fsf.org/news/playogg.html |title='Play Ogg': FSF launches free audio format campaign |publisher=Free Software Foundation |first1=Matt |last1=Lee |date=May 16, 2007 |access-date=2010-03-04 |archive-date=2011-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608015711/http://www.fsf.org/news/playogg.html |url-status=live }}</ref> People were also encouraged to support the campaign by adding a web button to their [[website]] or [[blog]]. For those who did not want to download and use the FSF's suggested Ogg player ([[VLC media player|VLC]]), the [[Xiph|Xiph.Org Foundation]] had an official codec<ref>{{cite web |url=http://xiph.org/quicktime/ |title=Foundation: Ogg QuickTime Components for iTunes and iMovie (Windows and Mac OS X) |publisher=Xiph.org |access-date=2010-03-04 |archive-date=2008-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026081609/http://xiph.org/quicktime/ |url-status=live }}</ref> for [[QuickTime]]-based applications in [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[Mac OS X]], such as [[iTunes]] players and [[iMovie]] applications; and Windows users could install a [[Windows Media Player]] Ogg codec.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xiph.org/dshow/ |title=Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC |publisher=Xiph.org |date=2010-02-22 |access-date=2010-03-04 |archive-date=2013-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124155113/http://www.xiph.org/dshow/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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