Audio formats vary by codec, compression method, quality, metadata, and application support. Use the exact extension page to identify suitable software, and preserve an original copy before converting or re-encoding an important recording.
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The Ogg file format is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. It is designed for streaming and manipulati...
MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer III) is a widely used audio coding format for digital audio. It's known for its ability to significantly reduce f...
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio. Unlike lossy audio formats such a...
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy audio compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the succes...
Windows Media Audio Lossless (WMA Lossless) is an audio codec developed by Microsoft. It's designed for lossless audio compression, mea...
The Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other...
An M3U (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator) file is a plain text file that stores a multimedia playlis...
M4A (MPEG-4 Audio) is a filename extension used to represent audio files encoded with Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or Apple Lossless Aud...
A PLS (Playlist) file is a plain text file format used to store a list of audio or video files for playback in media players. It's a si...
The .gig file format, short for GigaSampler Instrument File, is a proprietary audio sample library format originally developed by Nemes...
A Standard MIDI File (SMF) is a universal file format designed to store MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data, which consist...
The ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) file format is a lossless audio compression format developed by Apple Inc. It's designed to reduc...
Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and standardized as RFC 6716. It is designe...
Monkey's Audio (APE) is a lossless audio compression format. This means that, unlike lossy formats like MP3 or AAC, no audio data is di...
The Waveform Audio File Format (WAV, or less commonly WAVE due to MS-DOS 8.3 file name limits) is a widely used audio file format stand...
A WPL file is a playlist format used by Windows Media Player. It's essentially an XML-based file that contains a list of media files (a...
Adobe Audition Peak files (.pkf) are auxiliary files created by Adobe Audition, a professional audio editing and digital audio workstat...
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary audio codec developed by Microsoft. It is used for storing and playing audio files, often wi...
The M4R file extension is used for iPhone ringtone files. It's essentially an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) audio file, which is a type o...
The .tts file extension is commonly associated with text-to-speech (TTS) voice files. These files typically contain pre-recorded audio...
SoundFont 2 (SF2) is a widely recognized file format for storing musical instrument samples and synthesis parameters. Developed by E-mu...
A CPR file is a project file created by Steinberg Cubase, a professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) used for music production, rec...
The RPP file extension is primarily associated with REAPER (Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording), a comp...
The .kar file extension represents the MIDI Karaoke file format, which is a specialized variation of the Standard MIDI File (SMF). Unli...
The Ogg file format is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. It is designed for streaming and manipulation of high-qual...
MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer III) is a widely used audio coding format for digital audio. It's known for its ability to significantly reduce file size while...
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio. Unlike lossy audio formats such as MP3, AAC, and...
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy audio compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor to MP3, AAC...
Windows Media Audio Lossless (WMA Lossless) is an audio codec developed by Microsoft. It's designed for lossless audio compression, meaning it compres...
The Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audi...
An M3U (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator) file is a plain text file that stores a multimedia playlist. It contains...
M4A (MPEG-4 Audio) is a filename extension used to represent audio files encoded with Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC)...
A PLS (Playlist) file is a plain text file format used to store a list of audio or video files for playback in media players. It's a simple and widely...
The .gig file format, short for GigaSampler Instrument File, is a proprietary audio sample library format originally developed by Nemesys and later ow...
A Standard MIDI File (SMF) is a universal file format designed to store MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data, which consists of musical in...
The ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) file format is a lossless audio compression format developed by Apple Inc. It's designed to reduce the file size...
Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and standardized as RFC 6716. It is designed for efficient...
Monkey's Audio (APE) is a lossless audio compression format. This means that, unlike lossy formats like MP3 or AAC, no audio data is discarded during...
The Waveform Audio File Format (WAV, or less commonly WAVE due to MS-DOS 8.3 file name limits) is a widely used audio file format standard, developed...
A WPL file is a playlist format used by Windows Media Player. It's essentially an XML-based file that contains a list of media files (audio and video)...
Adobe Audition Peak files (.pkf) are auxiliary files created by Adobe Audition, a professional audio editing and digital audio workstation (DAW) softw...
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary audio codec developed by Microsoft. It is used for storing and playing audio files, often with digital righ...
The M4R file extension is used for iPhone ringtone files. It's essentially an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) audio file, which is a type of MPEG-4 audio...
The .tts file extension is commonly associated with text-to-speech (TTS) voice files. These files typically contain pre-recorded audio generated from...
SoundFont 2 (SF2) is a widely recognized file format for storing musical instrument samples and synthesis parameters. Developed by E-mu Systems and Cr...
A CPR file is a project file created by Steinberg Cubase, a professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) used for music production, recording, arrangi...
The RPP file extension is primarily associated with REAPER (Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording), a comprehensive digit...
The .kar file extension represents the MIDI Karaoke file format, which is a specialized variation of the Standard MIDI File (SMF). Unlike traditional...
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