What is OGG?

OGG is a bitstream container format for efficient streaming and file compression. It was created in the process of developing a set of components for the coding and decoding of multimedia content which could be both freely available and freely re-implementable in software.

OGG includes a number of separate independent open source codecs for both audio and video. Due to the fact that this format is patent-free and fully open ogg's various codecs have been incorporated into a number of different free and commercial media players.

Its name originates from jargon that means to do something forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources. At its inception the Ogg project was thought to be somewhat ambitious given the power of the PC hardware of the time.

Total Audio Converter supports the following conversions with OGG format files:

OGG to MP3 OGG to WMA OGG to WAV OGG to OGG (change bitrate or frequency) OGG to FLAC OGG to AAC OGG to MP4 OGG to MPC OGG to APE

MP3 to OGG WMA to OGG WAV to OGG RA to OGG CDA to OGG FLAC to OGG APE to OGG APL to OGG AAC to OGG MPC to OGG MPP to OGG MP4 to OGG OFR to OGG SPX to OGG TTA to OGG WV to OGG MOD to OGG

Another supported audio formats

• MPEG Audio Layer format (MP3)
• Windows Media Audio format (WMA)
• WAVE audio format (WAV)
• OGG file format (OGG)
• Real Audio format (RA, RMM, RAM, RAX, RPM, RM, RMVB)
• Audio Tracks format (CDA)
• Free Lossless Audio Codec format (FLAC)
• Monkey's Audio format (APE, APL)
• Advanced audio coding (AAC, M4A)
• Musepack formats (MPP, MPC, MP+)
• MPEG-4 international standard (MP4)
• OptimFROG (OFR)
• Speex (SPX)
• True Audio codec (TTA)
• WavPack (WV)
• MOD music (MOD)