.OGG File Extension

Are you having difficulty opening a file that ends with .OGG? Such files can be executed only by certain programs. If you cannot open the .OGG file, it can be due to the following reasons: either you do not have an appropriate program to open it, or your file association is corrupted. For more information about this extension, please read the article below.

What is a .OGG file?

.OGG file belongs to the category of Audio Files used in operating systems such as Windows 11, 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

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Developer: Xiph.Org
File Type: Ogg Vorbis Audio File
Category: Audio Files
Format: Binary

.OGG file is associated with Ogg Vorbis Audio File developed by Xiph.Org, has a Binary Format and belongs to Audio Files category.

An OGG file is considered an audio file that resembles an .MP3 file where music is stored. Such a file contains audio data in the Ogg container format, which is compressed through Vorbis audio compression. OGG files include metadata information about the song.

Additional data

The Ogg container format is a multimedia format supporting multiple streams of video/audio/text/metadata. Individual streams are compressed using different compression methods (Theora, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, and OggPCM).

Previously OGG files were used to store different media types, but later it was decided to keep only audio data in OGG files. OGG files also use other types of audio compression, such as FLAC and Speex.



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