What is the difference between .ra and .mp2?
- Extension
- .ra
- .mp2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- Moving Picture Experts Group
- 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.
- Audio format that uses MPEG-1 Layer II compression to reduce the file size; mainly replaced by the ubiquitous .MP3 format, but is still used for digital radio and digital television broadcasts.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- audio/mpeg
- Sample
- sample.mp2
- Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia
- .mp2 on Wikipedia