Ogg Vorbis and WAV File Formats
WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. WAV is a variant of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in “chunks”, and thus also close to the IFF and the AIFF format used on Amiga and Macintosh computers, respectively. Both WAVs and AIFFs are compatible with Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The format takes into account some differences of the Intel CPU such as little-endian byte order. The RIFF format acts as a “wrapper” for various audio compression codecs.
Ogg is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The Ogg format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. The name ‘Ogg' refers to the file format which can multiplex a number of separate independent free and open source codecs for audio, video, text (such as subtitles), and metadata.
Ogg is only a container format. The actual audio or video encoded by a codec will be stored inside an Ogg container. Ogg containers may contain streams encoded with multiple codecs, for example, an audio video file may contain data encoded by both an audio codec and a video codec. Being a Container format, Ogg can embed audio and video in various formats (such as MPEG-4, Dirac, MP3 and others) but usually Ogg is used with the following:
Ogg Audio Codecs
- Lossy Ogg Audio Codec
+ Speex: handles voice data at low bitrates (~8-32 kbit/s/channel)
+ Vorbis: handles general audio data at mid- to high-level variable bitrates (~16-500 kbit/s/channel)
- Lossless Ogg Audio Codec
+ FLAC: handles archival and high fidelity audio data
NoteBurner Ogg Vorbis to WAV Converter
Since NoteBurner Ogg to WAV Audio Converter uses virtual burning technology, media player like iTunes, Windows Media Player or Real Player, or audio editing program like Adobe Audition, is required to co-work with the program to complete the converting. Basically, NoteBurner Ogg to WAV Audio Converter is able to convert all types of audio files that can be played by your media players, such as converting Ogg to WAV, Ogg to to MP3 and WMA.
NoteBurner Ogg to WAV Converte can preserve MP3 ID3 tag, containing Artist name, Song title, Year and Genre of the current audio file. The latest version of NoteBurner can also preserve album name and album art to the converted audio files. NoteBurner Ogg to WAV Audio Converter is a versatile Ogg to WAV Converter. The Ogg converter is compatible with iTunes, WMP 10, Real Player, Adobe Audition (Cool Edit) and many other audio players and audio editors.
NoteBurner Ogg Audio Converter applies virtual CD burning technology to simulate the burning and ripping process. By doing so it converts DRM protected audio files, such as m4p, m4a, m4b, wma and audio book, and unprotected audio, such as wma, mp3, wav, rax, mp4, ra, snd, aac, ogg, aa and aif, etc. to mp3, wav and wma.
