What is the difference between .ra and .spx?
- Extension
- .ra
- .spx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- Xiph.Org
- 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 file compressed using Speex compression and saved in the Ogg Vorbis container format; designed as an audio compression format specifically for speech; compresses voice at 2 to 44 kbps and supports 8 kHz, 16 kHz, and 32 kHz compression in the same bitstream.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- audio/ogg
- Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia
- .spx on Wikipedia