.aa audio/audible Audible file format (audio books)
.aac audiio/aac Advanced Audio Coding File (Apple iTunes Store)
.ac3 audio/ac3 Adaptive Transform Coder 3
(relates to the bitstream format of Dolby Digital)
.aif audio/x-aiff Audio Interchange File Format
.aifc audio/x-aiff Audio Interchange File Format
.aiff audio/x-aiff Audio Interchange File Format
.ale Apple Lossless Encoder (same as m4a)
.ape Monkey's audio
.atrac Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding
.au audio/basic 8-bit u-law [PCM] / 8000 Hz
.cht audio/x-dspeech Chart (Harvard Graphics 2.0 - SoftCraft Presenter)
.dct Express Dictate's raw format like .wav
.dus audio/x-dspeech Readiris font dictionary
.es audio/echospeech
.flac audio/flac Free Lossless Audio Codec
.gsd audio/x-gsm GSM Internet Realtime Audio
.gsm audio/x-gsm, application/x-gsm Raw GSM 6.10 Audio Stream
.kar - audio/midi
.la audio/nspaudio Netscape Packetized audio
.lma audio/nspaudio Netscape Packetized audio
.m3u audio/x-mpegurl Music Playlist (Winamp)
.m4A MPEG-4 Audio Layer - Apple iTunes AAC and ALE unprotected
.M4B Apple iTunes AAC protected audiobook
.M4P Apple iTunes AAC protected
.mid audio/x-midi MIDI
.midi audio/x-midi MIDI
.mp2 audio/mpeg MPEG Audio Stream, Layer II
.mp3 audio/mpeg, audio/x-mpeg3, audio/mpg MPEG Audio Stream, Layer III
.mp4 audio/mp4 MPEG-4 (MPEG-4 is a Video format but has an audiio component)
.mpa audio/mpeg MPEG Audio Stream, Layer I, II or III
.mpga audio/mpeg
.ogg audio/x-ogg Ogg Vorbis open-source audio format
.ra audio/x-realaudio Music (RealAudio)
.ram audio/x-pn-realaudio Real Audio Player
.rax RealAudio 10 - RealMedia Streaming file
.rm audio/x-pn-realaudio Real Audio
.rmf audio/x-rmf Rich Music Format audio file from Beatnik
.rmi audio/mid MIDI File
.rpm audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RedHat Package Manager
.shn Shorten Audio Compression File
.stream audio/x-qt-stream
.tsi audio/tsplayer TSP-audio
.vox audio/voxware Vox Audio
.vqe audio/x-twinvq-plugin Yamaha Sound-VQ Locator file
.vqf audio/x-twinvq VTransform-domain Weighted Interleave Vector Quantization .(TwinVQF) Music File
.vql audio/x-twinvq Yamaha Sound-VQ Locator file
.wav audio/x-wav, audio/wav Windows Audio File WAVE format
.wax audio/x-ms-wax
.wma audio/x-ms-wma Windows Media Audio
Windows Media Audio Decode (Format Tag: WMA2 = 353, WMA1=352)
* G.726
See also:
Audio Formats in AV
last updated 27 July 2005
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