What is the difference between .ra and .ima?
- Extension
- .ra
- .ima
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- IBM
- Description
- RealPlayer created RA for audio streaming. It makes use of various audio codecs from those that deliver high-fidelity sounds to those that record low bitrate audio data. Radio stations mainly used it for online streaming, but current formats have overthrown it.
- A headerless file of IMA ADPCM audio data. IMA ADPCM claims 16-bit precision packed into only 4 bits, but in fact sounds no better than .vox.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- audio/x-adpcm
- Sample
- sample.ima
- Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia
- .ima on Wikipedia