Audio file formats
Audio formats covering compressed, lossless and uncompressed sound storage.
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Audio formats
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A lossy audio coding format from the MPEG family widely used for music, streaming, broadcasting, mobile media, and audio tracks inside MP4-family containers.
An audio container developed by Apple and based on the IFF structure, commonly used for uncompressed PCM audio and professional audio workflows.
A speech-oriented audio format standardized for mobile communications, especially narrowband voice coding in cellular networks and voice recordings.
An open audio format that reduces file size without discarding any information from the original digital audio signal.
An audio-focused use of the MPEG-4 container, commonly carrying AAC or Apple Lossless audio and associated metadata.
A compact event-based music file format that stores notes, timing, controller events, tempo changes, and other performance instructions rather than recorded audio samples.
A widely used compressed audio format based on MPEG Layer III audio coding, commonly paired with ID3 metadata.
An open container format from Xiph.Org commonly used for audio streams such as Vorbis, Opus, Speex, and FLAC.
A low-latency lossy audio format standardized by the IETF for speech, music, streaming, conferencing, and interactive applications, commonly stored in Ogg.
A RIFF-based audio container commonly used for uncompressed PCM audio, although it can carry several other audio encodings.