Ogg is an open, patent-free, and efficient container format maintained by Xiph.Org Foundation. Ogg container format can contain several independent streams for audio, video, subtitles, and metadata.
Before 2007, the .ogg file extension was used for all media files whose content used the Ogg container format. Since 2007, the Xiph.Org Foundation recommends that .ogg only be used for Ogg Vorbis audio files. Vorbis is free lossy audio compression also developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. Free loosy video compression is also provided by Xiph.Org, called Theora.
Other file extensions recommened by Xiph.Org include .oga for audio only files with codecs other than Vorbis such as FLAC and Speex, .ogv for video files (e.g. Theora encoded), and .ogx for multiplexed Ogg format.
Ogg files are similar to .MP3 files, but have better quality than MP3 files of equal size. Since Ogg is free, many media players and some portable music players have implemented Ogg support.
Ogg was formerly recommended as the standard format of HTML5 to play Theora video and Vorbis audio because they are unpatented. But the recommendation was soon dropped. Now HTML5 specification is still being discussed.
"Ogg" derives from "ogging", a jargon in the game Netrek, having the mean of "To do anything forcefully, without consideration of the drain on future resources." "Vorbis" is named after Exquisitor Vorbis, a character in the book Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. Similarly, Theora is named after Theora Jones, a character of Max Headroom television program.
The most straightforward method is to install the Xiph QuickTime Components to make iTunes support OGG files. Please make sure you have installed QuickTime for Windows version 7 or later. Download the QuickTime Components here: //www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html
Follow its wizard to install the plug-in on your computer. Meanwhile, you need to close iTunes and QuickTime. After the installation process, run iTunes and import and play OGG files.
By installing XiphQT, you’re able to play OGG files in iTunes directly, but the pity is that the QuickTime Components only supports the 32-bit version of Windows and even if your version meets the requirements, you might also meet issues since many people reflect that this method doesn't always work.
wanted to turn that file into an mp3 I
simply use Safari the Safari the Safari
Browser this will not work with any well
I've tried it with Chrome and it doesn't
work so I've just simply typed in online
audio converter and I've found the
easiest one is this one right here the
converter o.co
I'm going to click there and I'll leave
a link to that in the description of
this video you'll notice that I have a
previous download in the queue because
there's that little blue downward facing
arrow now this is really important I
have to clear any previous downloads by
clicking on it and selecting clear right
there before I do anything and then all
I do here is I choose the file that I
want to convert so when that comes up
it's going to ask me to browse and I can
have a look instead of my recent files
I'm going to go to browse because I know
that it's on my iPhone right here and
it's in my garage band and exports
exports folder rather so I'm going to
select that and then
it automatically says convert to mp3 you
can convert it to any one of these other
file types if you like by clicking where
it says mp3 and if I click the Settings
wheel right here I also have some extra
options where I can change with this
little slider right here the quality of
the mp3 that I'm going to export so if I
want to select say 192 kilobits per
second which is a format that I use
quite a lot I can select that there
I simply now just hit convert and then
it's going to convert that file for me
you'll see a little progress bar there
and then it should divert me to another
screen where I can download that file
okay so the conversion is complete so if
I hit download it will now should have a
pop-up that asked me to download now
this won't come up properly if you
haven't cleared that their previous
downloads so I'm going to hit download
if you hit view it'll just play it in
the browser it's you have to hit
download and then you'll see there's a
little progress bar up the top and it's
finished the download and then I tend to
click on that again and just go clear so
that I don't have any problems with
future conversions now to make sure that
that has been downloaded it should end
up in my files app and it should be in
my downloads folder right here let's
have a look it should be dark trap beat
there we go and let's have a look if I
click on that and select info there we
go it's telling me it's an mp3 file and
if I compare the size of that that's 990
kilobytes to the original file let's
have a look at the original export it
should be roughly the same because
they're both compressed file formats
there we go the original one was 1.1
megabytes so it's more or less a similar
size if my original file was a dot WAV
file it would be quite different and
I'll show you how to do that right now
so if you
I have this site that I download sounds
from called freesound.org I really love
it and it's a free site and it has
Creative Commons music and field
recordings I use a lot of these in my
compositions for example when I get like
lo-fi hip-hop and I'm looking for a
vinyl crackle you can search here on
freesound.org now you have to have an
account with these guys so you just log
in it's totally free but it's a really
good site they don't ask you better send
your spam or anything never received
spam from these guys so if I search for
vinyl I think that's how you spell it my
spelling is absolutely terrible
and hit Search it looks like here we go
so here's an AI F file let's see if I
can find some vinyl crackle here's one
here vinyl crackle if I click on that
and let me see what sort of file format
that is so that's already an mp3
I might refine my search just to WAV
files or the sake of this video so I can
do that over there and let's see here we
go is one that looks like it might be
some vinyl crackle so a quick listen
okay that sounds good
when you do the previews here they're
quite low quality but you'll see here
that this is a Creative Commons license
the person has released this under
Creative Commons which means we're free
to use that without any copyright issues
I'm going to select download and then I
can download this file directly to my
files app so this should end up in my
downloads folder you'll see there's a
progress bar right on the top right hand
corner showing that downloading at the
moment because it's a WAV file it shows
me that it's one point five megabytes
there so sometimes the wav files take
quite a bit longer than mp3s to download
and then as soon as that's complete
should be able to see that I can
actually probably see a progress in my
downloads folder there there it is there
so that's the progress of that download
I don't know how it's taking so long but
I might pause this video and join back
with you as soon as that's done okay so
that download is finished now and if I
have a look at that I might actually
rename that so it's a bit easy to see by
adding my finger down on it and
selecting rename I might just call that
vinyl so I can use that in my guards and
compositions and things like that
but if I want to convert that file to
mp3 I simply do the same thing I go to
Safari I go to convert EO I can upload
that web file when I choose files
and when I browse I'm just going to look
in my downloads folder or the vinyl
crackle there it is right there
now that's going to upload that web file
and as soon as that's uploaded that was
quick I can convert that one to mp3 now
let's do that conversion and then we'll
probably see a dramatic difference in
the file size between that original web
file and the mp3 so you'll notice that I
before I can download this I need to
clear that first download up there so if
I go here and go clear now I can happily
download this vinyl crackle mp3 get
download and that downloaded really
quick let's go have a look at the
difference in the file size so the
original one right there was one point
six megabytes and now my mp3 version
right there is only a hundred and 99
kilobytes much smaller because it's a
compressed format which is mp3 so that
is an easier way than my previous video
to convert any audio file on your iPhone
to an mp3
thanks for watching and I'll see you in
the next video