Do We Need to Use .OGA For Audio Files?

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I read a post that showed how to add custom sounds. It showed that rarely used *.OGA file extension was used.

When using custom sound files is it necessary to use just *.OGA extension for custom audio sounds? i.e., may we use .OOG, MP3, WAVE etectera?

~s

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Citation?

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Mobile Settings app → Feedback tab. There you can select what sound file plays for certain events. I believe it needs to use .OGG file format (I can confirm this) but here is where it get a bit confusing: .ogg and .oga mean almost the same thing (and may both work, altough I haven’t tested .oga specifially). Mp3 and Wav are unlikely to work (I haven’t seen a notice that those would be supported). It’s simple to test any of them - the different file formats won’t brake anything.

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No. Not that. In complex terms:

  • I don’t like the sounds that are played. I hear the same one is public places.
  • I am adapt at creating my own sounds.
  • I intend to make my own sounds.
  • I wanted to know if we have to use *.OGA or if others were supported.
  • I assume from your response that OGG will suffice.

I’m surprised, sort of, that L5 doesn’t support the most widely used and widely supported MP3. I guess that would make L5 look too much like - those other guys.

SUMMARY:

Am I correct in saying we are permitted to create, install, and use our own *.OGG files on the L5 Byzantium as alarm sounds, incoming call, Text received, and other various device sounds.

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Citation of what?
~s

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Yes. Well put.

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Looks like the link in the OP is butchered. However there are several posts that do say that so I am prepared to accept it without a citation. :wink:

Yes.

To clarify what this means: OGG is a container format. Like some other container formats it can carry multiple concurrent data streams e.g. audio and/or video and/or text for subtitles. The container format defines specific file types (extensions) for use depending on which streams are present. When an OGG container contains only an audio stream, you can use the file type .OGA and that is what is wanted here.

No.

You will need to convert the sound file before configuring it in if it is currently an MP3 or WAV file. You can probably use SoundConverter or ffmpeg or perhaps sox to do the conversion. You are converting to OGG format but the file type must end up as .OGA (which may necessitate renaming it after the conversion, depending on the capabilities of the conversion tool used).

(assuming that OOG is meant to be OGG)

At a minimum you would have to rename a .OGG file to a .OGA file. However you would also have to ensure that it contains only an audio stream.

So, as a hypothetical, if you want to use a ringtone from your favourite movie and you have that movie as a .OGG file then you would have to strip the video (and subtitles, if present) out - saving the result as a .OGA file.

Also, despite the fact that all references in this post show uppercase file types (extensions), I would imagine that the actual files will need lowercase file types (extensions) i.e. .oga

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11 posts were split to a new topic: Audio theory and formats

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OK. that about the post needed citation, or a link. I have no idea where that article is, except that I read it in these Forums somewhere, and remembering that it’s contents told me I could make my own sounds, became a toy-project so to speak.

Reading about OGA extension, needed to confirm which one. @irvinewade provided some detail in what how and why and other’s comments will definitely help any one else looking to do the same.

~s

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