OGG and FLAC explained
OGG here means Ogg Vorbis, a royalty-free lossy codec that predates Opus. It is competitive with AAC and remains common in games.
FLAC compresses audio losslessly, typically to about half the size of WAV. Decompressed, it is bit-for-bit identical to the original — the compression is mathematical, not perceptual.
- Where OGG files come from
- Game audio, Spotify's older streams and open-source projects.
- Where FLAC is used
- Hi-fi music libraries and archival rips of physical media.