whats the diffence between OMG & OMA?

[dave_bass5]

I seem to have both on my PC but dont know what the difference is?

Thanks

Dave.

[jadeclaw]

A different container format for the sounddata.

OMG was the format up to SonicStage 2.0.

OMA is the format from 2.1 onwards.

The difference seems to be additional data for the Harddisk-player.

[dave_bass5]

Thanks.

does this mean i can delete all the OMG files? i dont use SS2.0 and i dont need any of my old stuff.

Dave.

[Latexxx]

No. If you want to get rid of .omg files, you need to use SS File conversion tool to convert them to .oma.

[dave_bass5]

Ok now im confused.

Latexxx can you explain why i cant just hit del on my keyboard?

thanks

Dave.

[Latexxx]

Of course you can remove them, but then you'll lose your files forever if you don't first convert them to .oma files.

[dave_bass5]

Thanks. thats what i said in my first post but wasnt sure.

Dave.

[ksandbergfl]

I seem to have both on my PC but dont know what the difference is?

Thanks

Dave.

The file headers in OMA files are larger than in OMG. My guess is that Sony needed to add room for more metadata to support Connect. The XML tags in the OMA headers are also two bytes per character, instead of one in the OMG files. Again, my guess would be to support multi-national language character sets for Connect.