RealAudio

File Format
Name	RealAudio
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music RealAudio
Extension(s)	.ra, .ram
MIME Type(s)	audio/vnd.rn-realaudio, audio/x-pn-realaudio

MultiMediaWiki page for RealMedia, includes information about the Real Audio format

RAM - RealAudio Metadata

RealAudio .ram metadata files are very simple files that hold references to audio sources. They consist of one line of plain text: a URL. This can be a relative or absolute HTTP URL, but for streaming services this may use the Real-Time Streaming Protocol or the older Progressive Networks Media protocol.

Examples

• .ram with a HTTP reference
• .ram with an RTSP reference
• .ram with a PNM reference

Links

• real.com What is Streaming Media and how does it work?
• Article by former Real Networks employee about why they did stuff consumers hated