Ogg Squish was also an attempt from the Xiphophorus company to create a royalty-free lossless audio compression codec.
[8] In 2001, OggSquish was renamed to "Ogg" and it was described as "the umbrella for a group of several related multimedia and signal processing projects".
[9] Ogg has come to stand for the container file format, as part of the larger Xiph.org multimedia project.
[3] In 2000 and 2001 there was some information from Xiphophorus company's developers about plans for a continuation of Ogg Squish as a lossless audio compression.
[1][10] On January 29, 2003, the Xiph.Org Foundation officially announced the incorporation of FLAC as a lossless audio compression codec under Xiph.org banner.