Upload an RA audio file and save it as M4A for players, messengers, editing, publishing or archiving.
RA is a streaming audio file category format designed to play audio over a wide area network. The RA (RealAudio) file format was developed by RealNetworks in the mid-90s of the last century. The file itself contains encoded audio information, but it may also contain links to audio content. It may contain audio data or reference an audio streaming file.
In order to compress the data, they use their own Real compression algorithm with a variable bitrate, as well as a variety of codecs. The .ra file format is a common format required to play streaming audio on the Internet. Real Audio is a standard format for playing audio clips in a web browser. As a rule, they use the RealOne Player to play it. However, due to the fact that it is completely unsuitable and clogged with advertising, they recommend the RealAlternative package.
Previously, most radio stations broadcasting online used this particular format. Also until 2009, the format was used on its website by BBC. Currently, the RA format is not so popular among those who broadcast online, since new technologies have already been introduced.
ALAC is the format of a small specialized program called an audio codec. Its main task is to compress a file with digital music without losing its quality. The name of the format created by Apple's IT giant is Apple's abbreviation Lossless Audio Codec. This format may also be called ALE (from Apple Lossless Encoder). Files in this format can play devices even with limited computing resources - such as an iPod. When compressing a file in this format, it is approximately 40-60% of the original file. Now almost every multimedia player based on the libavcodec library is able to play ALAC format files.
Supported formats
This converter shows the accepted source formats and the result format.
Input files
RA
RM
M4A
M4P
FLAC
APE
AAC
AC3
AIF
AIFF
CAF
VOC
OGA
OGG
WMA
MP2
MP3
MPGA
WAV
OPUS
MPC
3GA
MKA
KAR
MMF
M4R
AMR
EAC3
WEBA
IMY
MXMF
OTA
RTTTL
RTX
XMF
MID
MIDI
AWB
Result
M4A
A damaged file or a non-standard codec can still fail even when the extension is supported.
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