What is the difference between .snd and .ra?
- Name
- Sound File
- Real Audio
- Extension
- .snd
- .ra
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.)
- RealNetworks
- Description
- Generic sound format used by a variety of programs; may be a Macintosh sound resource (from Mac OS Classic), an AKAI MPC audio sample, a generic Amiga sound, or other audio file.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- audio/basic
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- Wikipedia
- .snd on Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia