VOC to OGG Converter

How to Convert VOC to OGG Online

1. Upload Your VOC File: Drag and drop or click "+ Add Files" to select Creative Voice files from your computer. Batch upload is supported, so an entire folder of DOS-era sound effects can go in at once.
2. Pick a Quality Preset (or set bitrate): Default is the Quality Preset "Highest" — works for most cleanup jobs. Switch to Constant Bitrate (8 kbps to 384 kbps) for predictable file size, Custom Bitrate to type a specific kbps value, Variable Bitrate (48K to 384K for Vorbis) to let the encoder spend bits on complex passages only, or Specific file size to target an exact MB cap.
3. Set Audio Channel, Sample Rate, and Trim (Optional): Leave Audio Channel at "Original" (mono VOC stays mono) or downmix to mono / upmix to stereo. Audio Sample Rate defaults to "Original"; pick 22050 Hz or 44100 Hz to standardize older 8 kHz/11025 Hz Sound Blaster recordings. Use Trim to clip silence at the head or tail of long VOC dumps.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert". Files process on our servers — no sign-up, no watermark, no installation. Need the reverse direction or a different target? See WAV to OGG or VOC to MP3.

Why Convert VOC to OGG?

VOC (Creative Voice) is a 1989-era audio container developed by Creative Technology for the original Sound Blaster card. It stores audio as unsigned 8-bit PCM or Creative-flavored ADPCM in a block-structured layout, and it was the de facto sound format for DOS games from 1989 through the mid-1990s. Modern operating systems, browsers, phones, and game engines do not natively decode VOC — Windows Media Player, QuickTime, the iOS Files app, and Android's default player all refuse to open it. Ogg Vorbis (released as 1.0 in May 2000 by the Xiph.Org Foundation) is the opposite story: open-source, royalty-free, well compressed, and natively supported in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Android, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot.

• Retro game preservation — Rip the VOC samples from a DOS game disk (Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM mods, Sierra adventures) and archive them as OGG so they actually play on a 2026 laptop without DOSBox.
• Indie game audio — Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot all decode .ogg Vorbis natively for music and SFX. OGG keeps build sizes small without paying MP3/AAC patent royalties on commercial releases.
• Web playback — <audio src="clip.ogg"> works in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Opera without a polyfill. VOC requires a JavaScript decoder or server-side transcoding before a browser will touch it.
• Smaller archives — An 8-bit 22050 Hz mono VOC clip at ~22 KB/sec uncompressed shrinks to roughly 2-4 KB/sec at OGG q4-q6 with no audible loss on speech and chiptune-style samples.
• Modding & sample libraries — Sound effect packs from DOOM, Quake, and Build-engine games are still distributed as VOC. Converting to OGG makes them droppable into modern DAWs (Reaper, Ableton, FL Studio) that don't recognize the Creative header.
• Cross-platform delivery — Android since 2.3 (2010) plays OGG natively. iOS plays it via AVAudioPlayer with the codec enabled, and every desktop OS plays it through VLC, foobar2000, or the system player.

VOC vs OGG — Format Comparison

Vorbis Bitrate / Quality Quick Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Why won't Windows Media Player or VLC open my VOC file?

Windows Media Player doesn't ship a VOC decoder — Microsoft dropped Creative's format when RIFF WAVE became the system standard. VLC actually can play VOC through its FFmpeg backend, but many tagged-as-VOC files in retro-game archives are non-standard variants (truncated headers, Creative ADPCM compression that older decoders miss) and silently fail. Converting to OGG once gives you a file every modern player handles.

Will OGG sound worse than the original 8-bit VOC?

Usually not, and often the opposite. Most VOC files were recorded at 8-bit / 11025 Hz or 22050 Hz mono — that's a low ceiling. OGG Vorbis at Very High or 192 kbps preserves everything the source contained and removes only inaudible information. Where you can notice a difference is at very low VBR settings (under 64 kbps), where Vorbis may introduce slight warble on tonal samples — stay at 96 kbps+ for clean results.

What's the difference between OGG and OGA?

OGG is the container; Vorbis is the audio codec inside it. .ogg is the historical extension used for any Ogg-encapsulated content (audio, video, or Theora). .oga was introduced later by Xiph.Org to specifically mean "audio-only Ogg" so video tools wouldn't try to demux video. In practice almost every audio app still uses .ogg, and OGG and OGA files with Vorbis audio are byte-for-byte interchangeable after a rename.

Should I pick Vorbis or Opus inside the Ogg container?

Vorbis (the default here) is the right call for music, game SFX, and most legacy-conversion work because it has the broadest decoder support — every browser since 2012, Unity, Unreal, Godot, foobar2000, VLC. Opus is technically more efficient at low bitrates and ideal for voice/streaming, but Unity didn't add .opus decode until 2021 and some older mobile players still don't recognize it. If you're archiving DOS game audio, Vorbis is the safe default.

Can I use the converted OGG in Unity or Unreal without modification?

Yes. Unity imports .ogg Vorbis as a native AudioClip with no plugin — set the Load Type to Compressed In Memory for SFX or Streaming for music. Unreal Engine has used Ogg Vorbis as its default cooked audio format since UE3 and imports .ogg directly into the Content Browser. Godot's AudioStreamOggVorbis is also a built-in resource type.

What sample rate should I pick for old Sound Blaster samples?

If the VOC was recorded at 11025 Hz or 22050 Hz (typical for DOS-era games), leave the Audio Sample Rate at "Original" — upsampling to 44100 Hz doesn't add any information, just bloats the file. If you're mixing the converted clip into a 44.1 kHz project in a modern DAW, resample once at import inside the DAW rather than at conversion time, since DAW resamplers (Reaper's r8brain, Ableton's SRC) are generally higher quality than a one-pass batch resample.

Why is my OGG bigger than I expected after compressing an 8-bit VOC?

8-bit VOC files are already very small (8 bits per sample × the sample rate ≈ 22 KB/sec at 22050 Hz mono). A lossy OGG at 128 kbps actually runs at 16 KB/sec, so for very short or low-rate VOCs the saving is small. The win is compatibility, not always size. If size matters more than fidelity, drop the Vorbis bitrate to 64-96 kbps using Variable Bitrate or a Constant Bitrate setting — most 8-bit source material is still perfectly intelligible there.

Does conversion preserve looped sample markers from VOC?

No. The VOC format supports loop blocks (block type 6/7) for repeating game sound effects, but Ogg Vorbis has no equivalent metadata field for sample-accurate loop points. The audio data is preserved, but if you need looped playback in a game engine, set the loop points inside the engine (Unity's AudioClip loop, Unreal's Sound Cue, Godot's loop_mode) or use a DAW to add cue markers manually.

Can I convert a folder of VOC files in one batch?

Yes. Drop the whole folder onto the uploader and every .voc file converts with the same Quality Preset, codec, channel, and sample-rate settings. For larger archives — say a full game's sound bank with hundreds of clips — also try the Audio Compressor workflow if you want to keep them all under a target file size.