OGG Audio Format

The OGG file extension commonly refers to the Ogg Vorbis format, although there are several subversions. OGG first appeared on the digital music scene in 2003. It is an open-source format that is designed to be an efficient compression codec.

OGG is often used in distribution of free multimedia because the format itself is open-source. But many audio enthusiasts have begun to adopt it and several popular video games have incorporated the OGG format into game audio. As it has become more popular many MP3 players and media player programs have begun supporting the format as well.

OGG is usually a lossy codec, meaning that it removes some audio information that is out of the normal human hearing range. Though the OGG format has good quality, many people don’t like to use them for digital music libraries because the format does not support metadata, such as the artist, album, track name and other information that other formats include with the file.