- Extension
- .ra
- .ircam
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique
- 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.
- IRCAM SDIF (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique Sound Description Interchange Format). Used by academic music software such as the CSound package, and the MixView sound sample editor.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- audio/x-ircam
