Audio Formats (v 3.64)
| Suffix |
Format |
Read |
Write |
Plug-in |
| 3G2 |
3rd Generation Partnership Project |
yes |
yes |
no |
| 3GP |
3rd Generation Partnership Project |
yes |
yes |
no |
| 3GPP |
3rd Generation Partnership Project |
yes |
yes |
no |
| 4XM |
4X Movie |
yes |
yes |
no |
| 8SVX |
Interchange File Format (audio IFF) |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AAC |
MPEG 4 Audio |
yes |
no |
no |
| ABS |
MPEG 1 Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AC3 |
Digital Audio Compression |
yes |
yes |
no |
| ACM |
Interplay Audio |
yes |
no |
no |
| ACT |
Voice recording |
yes |
no |
no |
| ADX |
Dreamcast music |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AIFF |
Audio Interchange File Format |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AIFC |
SGI / Amiga |
yes |
no |
no |
| AL |
raw PCM |
yes |
yes |
no |
| ALW |
European telephony |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AMF |
Digital Sound and Music |
yes |
no |
yes |
| AMR |
Sony Ericsson |
yes |
yes |
no |
| APC |
CRYO music |
yes |
no |
no |
| APE |
Monkey Audio |
yes |
no |
no |
| APEX |
AVM Sample Studio bank |
yes |
no |
no |
| ARL |
Aureal Aspen bank file |
yes |
no |
no |
| ASF |
Windows Media Audio |
yes |
no |
no |
| ASF |
Electronic Arts |
yes |
no |
no |
| ASX |
Windows Media |
yes |
no |
no |
| AU |
SUN/NeXT/DEC audio file |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AUD |
Westwood Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AUD |
Avid Liquid |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AUD |
Out from Bonneville |
yes |
no |
no |
| AVI |
Audio Video Interleave |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AVR |
Audio Visual Research |
yes |
yes |
no |
| AWB |
AMR WB |
yes |
yes |
no |
| BWF |
Broadcast wave |
yes |
yes |
no |
| CDR |
Raw Audio-CD data |
yes |
yes |
no |
| CVS |
Continuously Variable Slope Delta modulation |
yes |
no |
no |
| DAT |
Raw MPEG |
yes |
no |
no |
| DCT |
Dictation encrypted |
yes |
no |
no |
| DCT |
Electronic Arts |
yes |
no |
no |
| DLS |
DownLoadable Sounds level 1 & 2 16 bits |
yes |
no |
no |
| DUK |
Duck |
yes |
no |
no |
| DWD |
DiamondWare Digitized file |
yes |
no |
no |
| EAS |
Electronic Arts Studio |
yes |
no |
no |
| EFE |
Ensoniq EPS file |
yes |
no |
no |
| FAP |
Ensoniq PARIS |
yes |
yes |
no |
| FAR |
Farandole |
yes |
no |
yes |
| FLAC |
Flexible Lossless Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| FLV |
Macromedia Flash |
yes |
yes |
no |
| FZV |
Casio FZ-1 Voice Dump |
yes |
yes |
no |
| G721 |
CCITT G721 ADPCM |
yes |
no |
no |
| G723 |
CCITT G723 ADPCM |
yes |
no |
no |
| GIG |
GigaStudio file (uncompressed) |
yes |
no |
no |
| GSM |
Global System for Mobile |
yes |
no |
no |
| GTG |
Game sound |
yes |
no |
no |
| HCOM |
Sound Tools HCOM |
yes |
yes |
no |
| INS |
Ensoniq EPS family instrument |
yes |
yes |
no |
| IT |
Epic Mega Games |
yes |
no |
yes |
| ITS |
Impulse Tracker sample |
yes |
no |
no |
| KAR |
Karaoke |
yes |
no |
yes |
| KSF |
Korg Triton Sample File |
yes |
no |
no |
| KSF |
Korg Trinity Sample File |
yes |
no |
no |
| L3 |
MPEG Audio Layer III |
yes |
no |
no |
| LAB |
Monkey Island audio |
yes |
no |
no |
| M1A |
MPEG 1 Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| M2A |
MPEG 2 Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| M3U |
Playlist |
yes |
no |
no |
| M4A |
Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) |
yes |
no |
no |
| M4B |
Monkey 4 music |
yes |
no |
no |
| M4B |
Audio book |
yes |
no |
no |
| M4V |
Raw MPEG-IV |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MAUD |
MAUD sample format |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MID |
Midi |
yes |
no |
yes |
| MKA |
Matroska Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MMF |
Smaf |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MOD |
Amiga / PC tracker |
yes |
no |
no |
| MOV |
Quicktime |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MP1 |
MPEG audio layer I |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MP2 |
MPEG audio layer II |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MP3 |
MPEG audio layer III |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MP4 |
MPEG audio layer IV |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MPA |
MPEG audio stream |
yes |
no |
no |
| MPC |
Musepack |
yes |
yes |
no |
| MPG |
MPEG |
yes |
no |
no |
| MPGA |
MPEG audio stream |
yes |
no |
no |
| NIST |
Spere NIST |
yes |
yes |
no |
| NXT |
NeXT |
yes |
no |
no |
| OGG |
Vorbis |
yes |
yes |
no |
| OKT |
Oktalyser |
yes |
no |
yes |
| PAF |
Ensoniq PARIS |
yes |
yes |
no |
| PAT |
Gravis Ultrasound Patch |
yes |
yes |
no |
| PCM |
raw PCM/PCM8 |
yes |
yes |
no |
| PPS |
PowerPoint Slideshow |
yes |
no |
no |
| PPT |
PowerPoint Presentation |
yes |
no |
no |
| PRC |
Psion record |
yes |
yes |
no |
| PVF |
Portable Voice Format |
yes |
yes |
no |
| RA |
Real Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| RAM |
Real Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| RAW |
raw PCM |
yes |
yes |
no |
| RBS |
MPEG compressed music |
yes |
yes |
no |
| REX |
Propellerhead's Reason Files |
yes |
yes |
no |
| RM |
Real Media |
yes |
yes |
no |
| RMI |
RIFF Midi |
yes |
no |
yes |
| RMJ |
Real Media Jukebox |
yes |
no |
no |
| RMVB |
Real Media Video |
yes |
no |
no |
| RoQ |
Id Software |
yes |
no |
no |
| S |
Akai S3000/S3200/S2000/S2800 sample |
yes |
yes |
no |
| S3M |
Screamtracker 3 |
yes |
no |
yes |
| SAM |
raw Signed PCM sample |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SB |
Raw Signed Byte (8 bit) |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SBK |
Emu Sound Font v 1.0 |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SCM |
ICQ sound scheme |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SD2 |
Sound Designer II flattened |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SDS |
Sound Designer II |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SDX |
Sample DUMP eXchange file |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SF |
IRCAM Sound File |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SF2 |
Emu SoundFont v2.x file |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SHN |
Shorten |
oui |
no |
no |
| SMP |
Turtle Beach SampleVision |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SND |
DALET layer II |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SND |
DALET layer III |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SND |
Raw unsigned pcm data |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SNDR |
Sounder sound file |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SNDT |
Sndtool sound file |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SOL |
Sierra Music |
yes |
no |
no |
| SON |
Beam Software |
yes |
no |
no |
| SOU |
8-Bit raw sampled |
yes |
no |
no |
| SPH |
Sphere (SPeech HEader Resources) |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SPPACK |
SPPack sound sample |
yes |
no |
no |
| SPX |
Speex |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SVX |
Interchange file format |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SW |
Raw Signed Word (16 bit) |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SWA |
Shockwave Audio |
yes |
no |
no |
| SWF |
Flash Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| TTA |
The True Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| TXW |
Yamaha TX-16 |
yes |
yes |
no |
| UAX |
Tournament sound |
yes |
no |
no |
| UB |
Raw Unsigned Byte (8 bit) data |
yes |
yes |
no |
| UL |
Raw Unsigned Long |
yes |
yes |
no |
| ULT |
Ultrapacker |
yes |
no |
yes |
| ULW |
Sun audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| UW |
Raw Unsigned Word (16 bit) data |
yes |
yes |
no |
| VAG |
Sony Playstation/PS2 |
yes |
yes |
no |
| VAP |
Annotated Speech |
yes |
yes |
no |
| VMS |
Continuously Variable Slope Delta modulation |
yes |
yes |
no |
| VOB |
Video Movie |
yes |
no |
no |
| VOC |
Sound Blaster |
yes |
yes |
no |
| VOX |
Telephony |
yes |
yes |
no |
| VSB |
Virtual Sampler Bank file |
yes |
yes |
no |
| W01 |
Yamaha TX16W |
yes |
yes |
no |
| W01 |
Yamaha SY-series wav file |
yes |
yes |
no |
| W3V |
Yamaha Motif |
yes |
yes |
no |
| W64 |
Sonic Foundry's Wave-6 |
yes |
yes |
no |
| WA! |
Gigasampler/Gigastudio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| WA8 |
8-bit WAV |
yes |
yes |
no |
| WAV |
Windows PCM |
yes |
yes |
no |
| WFB |
Turtle Beach WaveFront Bank |
yes |
no |
no |
| WFP |
Turtle Beach WaveFront Program |
yes |
no |
no |
| WMA |
Windows Media Audio |
yes |
yes |
no |
| WMV |
Audio MPEG |
yes |
yes |
no |
| WV |
WavPack |
yes |
yes |
no |
| WVE |
Psion |
yes |
yes |
no |
| WVE |
Electronic Arts (The Sims...) |
yes |
no |
no |
| XA |
PSX |
yes |
no |
no |
| XAC |
Extended Audio |
yes |
no |
no |
| XI |
Fastracker 2.0 Instrument |
yes |
yes |
no |
| XM |
FastTracker 2 |
yes |
no |
yes |