What is a .OGG file?
OGG is an open audio container, usually holding Vorbis or Opus audio.
- Did you know
- The Ogg container comes from the non-profit Xiph.Org Foundation, which froze the Vorbis bitstream in 2000 and shipped Vorbis 1.0 in 2002.
- The name Ogg comes from “ogging”, slang from the game Netrek for a forceful kamikaze ramming attack.
- Ogg’s usual audio codec, Vorbis, is named after the character Exquisitor Vorbis in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Small Gods.
- Ogg started life as “Squish”, then “OggSquish”, before being shortened simply to “Ogg” in 2001.
- On the web a .OGG file is served with the MIME type
audio/ogg.
- What Analyser shows you
- Inspect the waveform, spectrogram, codec, bitrate, channels, and tags of MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG, and Opus audio, and play Apple Core Audio (CAF) files such as iMessage voice messages, decoded on-device with FFmpeg where the browser cannot.
- Open a .OGG file
- Drag a .OGG file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.