Audio Formats


Advanced Audio Coding - Advanced Audio Coding(*.aac)

Development of methods for data compression and psychoacoustics gradually led to the fact that the standard MP3 became an obstacle for the implementation of new ideas in the encoding process. As a ...

MusePack - Musepack, Mpeg Plus(*.mpc)

MusePack (mpp, mp+, mpc, MPEG+) - open audio file format for storing audio data, distributed under the GNU General Public License. The quality of coding at high bit rates MPC (160 kbit/s and above) ...

Full HD Voice - Enhanced Low Delay AAC

During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, experts from Fraunhofer IIS staged a demonstration the world's first phone call to LTE networks using the audio codec AAC-ELD (Enhanced Low Delay AAC), ...

Monkey's Audio - Monkey's Audio File Format (*.ape)

It should be noted that APE format (also known as Monkey's Audio) is one of the most popular music formats, which uses lossless compression. This format is freely available to users with plug-ins ...

WAVPack Audio - WAVPack Audio File Format (*.wv)

WavPack is a completely open format for lossless audio compression, high-quality lossy compression and a unique hybrid mode. Despite the fact that the technology is based on a previous version of ...

CD Audio - CD Audio File Format (*.cda)

.CDA files are not, strictly speaking, files at all. Taken more accurately they resemble Microsoft's shortcut files in that they point to information rather than containing it themselves. In the ...

FLAC Audio - Free Lossless Audio Codec (*.flac)

FLAC is a codec for compressing audio data, originally written by Josh Coulson. As the name implies, FLAC compresses data while keeping them identical to the original - this is the main objective ...

AMR Format - Advanced Milti-Rate Codec (*.amr)

Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR or AMR-NB) audio codec is a proprietary audio compression technology optimized for speech coding. AMR codec has been adapted for use in speech applications by 3GPP ...

ALAC Audio - Apple Lossless Audio Codec (*.alac)

Apple Lossless (also known as Apple Lossless Encoder, ALE, or Apple Lossless Audio Codec, ALAC) - is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc to compress digital music without quality loss. ...

SND File - Sun AU/SND format (*.snd)

SND (SouND) - digital audio file format that was created by Apple Inc. Data stored in these files are commands for the Macintosh Sound Manager, and include a table of musical instruments and ...

WAV File - Wave Audio File Format (*.wav)

WAVE or WAV format is the short form of the Wave Audio File Format (rarely referred to as the audio for Windows). WAV format compatible with Windows, Macintosh or Linux. Despite the fact that the ...

OGG File - OGG Vorbis File Format (*.ogg)

Ogg vorbis format developed by Xiphophorus http://www.xiph.org/. On this website you can find the source code of the project. It is part of the Ogg, providing a fully open multimedia systems. The ...

AIFF File - Audio Interchange File Format (*.aiff)

AIFF is short for Audio Interchange File Format, which is an audio format initially created by Apple Computer for storing and transmitting high-quality sampled audio data. It supports a variety of ...

VQF File - TwinVQ File Format (*.vqf)

VQF is a new music compression format. Those files are smaller than MP3 files, but they need a little more power to play, and a lot more power to encode. The sound quality of a VQF file is not ...

CUE File - Cue Sheet File Format (*.cue)

.CUE files are a file format that originated with CD writing software such as CDRWin. Back in the days when hard discs and processors were somewhat slower than they are today, it was considered ...