OGA file format
| Extension | .oga |
| Category | audio |
| Programs | Microsoft Windows Media Player VLC media player Winamp |
| Description | OGA files represent the audio component within the OGG multimedia file format. If you opened an OGA file prior to 2007, it likely appeared on your computer as a file with a .ogg extension. However, the Xiph.Org Foundation, the creators of the OGG format, introduced additional extensions to accommodate different types of data. As a result, multimedia files are now saved with extensions such as .ogv, .oga, .ogm, .ogx, all within the OGG file system. Rather than combining audio, video, text, and metadata into one file, each type of data is now encoded separately with its own specific extension. |
| Technical details | Since the OGG file system is open source, audio-only OGA files can be written or modified using Ogg FLAC, OggPCM, Ogg Vorbis, or Speex. However, the latter two have not received favorable reviews. The Xiph.Org Foundation has developed similar software that is available to the public. This software pack enables both open-source and commercial Windows applications to use OGA files without any conflicts. |
| MIME type | audio/ogg |