Re: [LAU] What do you use for Vorvis audio? .ogg or .oga?

From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la@email-addr-hidden-nerd.com>
Date: Mon Jul 14 2008 - 02:03:36 EEST

Cory K. wrote:

> From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg
>
> "The Xiph.Org Foundation decided to create a new set of file extensions
> and media types to describe different types of content such as .oga for
> audio only files, .ogv for video with or without sound (including
> Theora), and .ogx for applications."
>
> More reference:
> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions
>
> To me, the only way to further adoption is to use the extension by
> default. I talked to the oggenc dev and he has no intention of using .oga.

I'm the main developer of libsndfile I libsndfile has been suggesting
the use of .oga for at least 6 months.

> So this is all very vexing to me as to which way to go.

Quite honestly, I really don't think it matters very much. No sensible
application would use the file extension to guess the data format in
the Ogg container.

Erik

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