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(Made container formats its own category since some formats also include non-waveform audio/music data (e.g. MIDI).)
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== Audio recording and sound waves ==
 
== Audio recording and sound waves ==
  
* Container formats
 
** [[ASF]] (Advanced Systems Format)
 
** [[CAF]] (Core Audio Format)
 
** [[MP4]] (MPEG-4 Part 14 media container)
 
** [[OGG]] (Vorbis, CELT or Opus audio compression format)
 
** [[RM]] (RealMedia)
 
 
* Lossless compression
 
* Lossless compression
 
** [[AAL]] (Lossless variant of ATRAC)
 
** [[AAL]] (Lossless variant of ATRAC)
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** ATRAC or [[Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding]] (.aa3, .oma, .at3)
 
** ATRAC or [[Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding]] (.aa3, .oma, .at3)
 
** [[Audible Audiobook]] (.aa, .aax)
 
** [[Audible Audiobook]] (.aa, .aax)
 +
** [[CELT]] (.ogg)
 
** [[GSM]] (Raw GSM 6.10 Audio Stream)
 
** [[GSM]] (Raw GSM 6.10 Audio Stream)
 
** [[M4A]] (MPEG-4 Audio)
 
** [[M4A]] (MPEG-4 Audio)
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** [[MPA]] (MPEG Audio)
 
** [[MPA]] (MPEG Audio)
 
** [[MPC (Musepack)|MPC]] (Musepack Audio, formerly known as MPEGplus)
 
** [[MPC (Musepack)|MPC]] (Musepack Audio, formerly known as MPEGplus)
 +
** [[Opus]] (.opus)
 
** [[RA]] (RealAudio)
 
** [[RA]] (RealAudio)
 
** [[SPX]] (Speex)
 
** [[SPX]] (Speex)
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** [[Vorbis]] (.oga, .ogg)
 
** [[WMA]] (Windows Media Audio)
 
** [[WMA]] (Windows Media Audio)
 
* Mixed compression
 
* Mixed compression
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** [[AU]] (Sun Microsystems audio format)
 
** [[AU]] (Sun Microsystems audio format)
 
** [[INRS-Telecom file]] (.aud)
 
** [[INRS-Telecom file]] (.aud)
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== Container formats ==
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* [[ASF]] (Advanced Systems Format)
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* [[Core Audio Format]] (.caf)
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* [[Extensible Music Format]] (.xmf)
 +
* [[Matroska]] (.mka)
 +
* [[MP4]] (MPEG-4 Part 14 media container)
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* [[OGG]] (.ogg, .oga, .ogx, .spx, .opus)
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* [[Rich Music Format]] (.rmf)
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* [[RealMedia]] (.rm)
  
 
== Emulated music ==
 
== Emulated music ==
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== R ==
 
== R ==
* [[Rich Music Format]]
 
 
* [[ROL]] (AdLib Visual Composer)
 
* [[ROL]] (AdLib Visual Composer)
  
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* [[TM8]] (8-channel stero [[TMC]])
 
* [[TM8]] (8-channel stero [[TMC]])
 
* [[TMC]] (Theta Music Composer v1.x)
 
* [[TMC]] (Theta Music Composer v1.x)
== X ==
 
* [[XMF]] (Extensible Music Format)
 
 
== Y ==
 
== Y ==
 
* [[YM]] (Amstrad CPC / Spectrum ZX / Atari ST)
 
* [[YM]] (Amstrad CPC / Spectrum ZX / Atari ST)

Revision as of 10:12, 24 November 2012

File Formats > Electronic File Formats > Audio and Music

Electronic Formats concerned with audio and musical data, including sound recording, instrument control, musical notation, etc.

Audio and sequencer software

Audio recording and sound waves

  • Lossless compression
  • Lossy compression
    • AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
    • Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation
    • ATRAC or Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (.aa3, .oma, .at3)
    • Audible Audiobook (.aa, .aax)
    • CELT (.ogg)
    • GSM (Raw GSM 6.10 Audio Stream)
    • M4A (MPEG-4 Audio)
    • M4B (iTunes Audio Book)
    • M4P (Fairplay DRM Encrypted M4A)
    • M4R (Apple iPhone Ringtones - see M4A)
    • MP+ (MPEGplus Audio)
    • MP1 (MPEG Audio Layer 1)
    • MP2 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer II)
    • MP3 (MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)
    • MPA (MPEG Audio)
    • MPC (Musepack Audio, formerly known as MPEGplus)
    • Opus (.opus)
    • RA (RealAudio)
    • SPX (Speex)
    • Vorbis (.oga, .ogg)
    • WMA (Windows Media Audio)
  • Mixed compression
    • BONK (lossy/lossless audio compression)
  • Proprietary
    • DCT (Dictation format by NCH Software)
    • DSS (Digital Speech Standard by Olympus)
    • DVF (Digital Voice File by Sony)
    • ICS (IC Sound by Sony)
    • IKLAX (iKlax Media)
    • MSV (Memory Stick Voice by Sony)
  • Uncompressed audio
    • AIF / AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)
    • LPCM (Linear Pulse Code Modulated Audio)
    • RAW (.raw, .pcm)
    • SF (Berkeley/IRCAM/Carl Sound Format)
    • WAV (Waveform Audio File Format)
  • Various encodings

Container formats

Emulated music

Game audio and music

Metadata formats

Music trackers

Musical instrument control

Musical notation

Playlist formats

  • B4S (Winamp 3 playlist)
  • FPL (foobar2000 playlist)
  • KPL (Kazaa Playlist Format)
  • M3U (Multimedia Playlist Format)
  • PLS (Multimedia Playlists)

Unclassified (need to move to other categories)

#

  • 2DX (2DX Audio File)
  • 2DX9 (2DX9 Audio File)

A

  • abk - AMOS Music Bank
  • AC1D (AC1D-DC1A Packer)
  • AC3 (Dolby Digital AC-3)
  • ACM (Audio Compression Manager)
  • ADM (ADM Audio File)
  • AIX (AIX Audio File)
  • AMC (AM Composer)
  • AST (Actionamics Sound Tool)
  • AY (Amstrad CPC / ZX Spectrum)

B

C

  • CBA (Chuck Biscuits+Black Artist)
  • CBD2
  • COP (SAM Coupe)
  • CPC (ZXAYEMUL Sound)
  • CPS
  • CRB (Heatseeker v1.0)
  • CUS (Custom Amiga Module)
  • CUSTOM (Custom Amiga Module)

D

E

F

  • FCM (FC-M Packer)
  • FFW
  • FMX (Fuxoft AY Language)
  • FP (Future Player)
  • FRED (Fred Editor)
  • FUZZ (Fuzzac Packer)

G

  • GBTS
  • GCUB
  • GCW
  • GDM (General Digital Music)
  • GENH (artificial header for RAW files)
  • GMC (Game Music Creator)
  • GSB
  • GSR (Gens Sound Record)

H

  • HAN (Digital Sound Creations)
  • HES (Hudson Entertainment System)
  • HIS
  • HIW (Jochen Hippel / TFM2)
  • HLWAV
  • HWAS

I

J

  • JBL (JBM Adlib Music)
  • JC (JCalG1 DataPacker)
  • JSTM
  • JT (Jeroen Tel)

K

  • KCEY
  • KDM (Ken's Digital Music)
  • KH (Kris Hatlelid)
  • KHV
  • KI (klystrack Instrument)
  • KLM (Whacky Wheels)
  • KOVS
  • KSM (Ken's Adlib Music)
  • KSS (MSX)
  • KSSX (Possible expansion of KSS)

L

M

  • MA (Music Assembler)
  • MADX (Extended MAD)
  • MATX
  • MBM (Moonblaster Music Format)
  • MDX (MXDRV16y Music File)
  • MDX (Sharp X68000)
  • MIHB
  • MII (Mark II Sound-System)
  • MK2 (Mark 2 Sound System)
  • MKII (Mark II Sound System))
  • MKJ (MKJamz Audio)
  • MMDC (MMDC)
  • MML (Music Macro Language)
  • MNSTR
  • MO3 (MP3 / OGG Compressed ST-xx)
  • MOL (MOD4WIN Module Lists)
  • MP (Module Protector + noID)
  • MPC (Mario Paint Composer)
  • MPDS
  • MSC (AdLib MSCplay)
  • MSF
  • MSQ (Mario Sequencer)
  • MSS (Advanced Mario Sequencer)
  • MTAF
  • MTK (MPU-401 trakker)
  • MXM (Mxmplay)
  • MYI (maxYMiser Instrument)

N

  • NSD (???)
  • NSF (NES Sound Format)
  • NSFE (Extended NSF)
  • NSP (Computerized Speech Lab)

P

  • PAT (UltraSound GF1 Patches)
  • PIXI (Pixilang)
  • PSC (Pro Sound Creator v1.xx)
  • PSM (Pro Sound Maker)

R

  • ROL (AdLib Visual Composer)

S

T

  • TFMX (TFMX)
  • TM2 (Theta Music Composer v2.x)
  • TM8 (8-channel stero TMC)
  • TMC (Theta Music Composer v1.x)

Y

  • YM (Amstrad CPC / Spectrum ZX / Atari ST)

See the Open Cubic Player homepage for a list of demo formats: http://www.cubic.org/player/features.html

See also Piano Rolls (which is under the Physical File Formats).

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