Audio and Music

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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

  • Container formats
    • ASF (Advanced Systems Format)
    • MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14 media container)
    • OGG (Vorbis, CELT or Opus audio compression format)
    • RM (RealMedia)
  • Lossless compression
    • AAL (Lossless variant of ATRAC)
    • ADA (Advanced Digital Audio)
    • ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
    • APAC (Marian's A-pac)
    • APE (Monkey's Audio)
    • Dakx Wav
    • DTS-HD (Lossless variant of DTS- DTS-HD Master Audio)
    • FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
    • LA (Lossless Audio)
    • LiteWave
    • LPAC (Lossless Predictive Audio Coding)
    • MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing Audio)
    • MPEG-4 ALS (MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding)
    • MPEG-4 SLS (MPEG-4 Scalable lossless coding mode)
    • OFR (OptimFROG lossless audio)
    • PCA (Sony's Perfect Clarity Audio)
    • RALF (Real Lossless Audio Codec)
    • RKA (RK Audio)
    • SHN (Shorten)
    • Sonarc
    • Split2000
    • TAK (Tom's Lossless Audio Kompressor)
    • TrueHD (Dolby TrueHD)
    • TTA (True Audio)
    • VocPack
    • WavArc
    • WavPack (WavPack Lossless)
    • WMA Lossless (Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless)
  • Lossy compression
    • AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
    • Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation
    • ATRAC or Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (.aa3, .oma, .at3)
    • Audible Audiobook (.aa, .aax)
    • 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)
    • RA (RealAudio)
    • SPX (Speex)
    • WMA (Windows Media Audio)
  • Uncompressed audio
    • AIF / AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)
    • LPCM (Linear Pulse Code Modulated Audio)
    • RAW (RAW audio)
    • WAV (Waveform Audio File Format)
  • Various encodings

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

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

D

  • D (SPPACK)
  • D00 (Packed EdLib Module)
  • DAT (Paul Robotham)
  • DCS
  • DCT (Format designed for dictation by NCH Software)
  • DE2
  • DFM (Digital-FM)
  • DH (David Hanney)
  • DL (Dave Lowe)
  • DLN (Dave Lowe New)
  • DLS (Downloadable Sounds Banks)
  • DLT (Delta Music Composer)
  • DM2 (Delta Music 2.0)
  • DMO (Twin TrackPlayer)
  • DMSG
  • DNS (Dynamic Synthesizer)
  • DSC (Digital Sonix & Chrome)
  • DSM (DSIK Internal)
  • DSR (Desire)
  • DSPW
  • DSS (Digital Speech Standard)
  • DTK
  • DTS
  • DVF (Sony Digital Audio recorders)
  • DVI
  • DW (David Whittaker)
  • DZ (Darius Zendeh)

E

F

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

G

H

  • HAN (Digital Sound Creations)
  • HD (Howie Davies)
  • HES (Hudson Entertainment System)
  • HIP (Jochen Hippel / TFMX)
  • HIPC (Hippel-COSO)
  • HIS
  • HIW (Jochen Hippel / TFM2)
  • HLWAV
  • HWAS

I

J

  • JBL (JBM Adlib Music)
  • JC (JCalG1 DataPacker)
  • JCB (Jason Brooke)
  • JD (Special FX)
  • JPO (Steve Turner)
  • JMF (Janko Mrsic-Flogel)
  • JO (Jesper Olsen)
  • JPN (Jason Page)
  • 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)
  • MC (Mark Cooksey)
  • MD (Mike Davies)
  • MDX (MXDRV16y Music File)
  • MDX (Sharp X68000)
  • MFP (Magnetic Fields Packer)
  • 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)
  • MOK (Silmarils)
  • MOL (MOD4WIN Module Lists)
  • MON (M.O.N New / Old)
  • MP (Module Protector + noID)
  • MPC (Mario Paint Composer)
  • MPDS
  • MSC (AdLib MSCplay)
  • MSF
  • MSQ (Mario Sequencer)
  • MSS (Advanced Mario Sequencer)
  • MSV (Sony dictation machines)
  • MTAF
  • MTK (MPU-401 trakker)
  • MUG (Mugician)
  • MUG2 (Mugician II)
  • MW (Martin Walker)
  • MXM (Mxmplay)
  • MXTX (MaxTrax)
  • MYI (maxYMiser Instrument)

N

  • NP2 (NoisePacker v2.x)
  • NP3 (NoisePacker v3.x)
  • NSD (???)
  • NSF (NES Sound Format)
  • NSFE (Extended NSF)
  • NSP (Computerized Speech Lab)
  • NTP (NovoTrade Packer)

O

  • ORC (TRS-80 Orchestra-90)
  • OSP (Synth Pack)

P

  • P4X (The Player v4.x)
  • P6X (The Player v6.x)
  • PAP (Pierre Adane Packer)
  • PAT (UltraSound GF1 Patches)
  • PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)
  • PHA (Pha Packer)
  • PIXI (Pixilang)
  • PP21 (ProPacker 2.1)
  • PP30 (ProPacker 3.0)
  • PR1 (Promizer)
  • PRU2 (Prorunner 2.0)
  • PRUN (Prorunner 1.0)
  • PS (Paul Shields)
  • PSA (Professional Sound Artists)
  • PSC (Pro Sound Creator v1.xx)
  • PSF (Soundfactory)
  • PSM (Pro Sound Maker)
  • PVP (Peter Verswyvelen Packer)

R

S

  • S98 (NEC PC-98)
  • SA (Sonic Arranger)
  • SAM (MOD Edit sample)
  • SB (Steve Barrett)
  • SCN (Sean Connolly)
  • SCR (Sean Conran)
  • SCT (Soundcontrol)
  • SD (ESPS sampled data file)
  • SDR (Synth Dream)
  • SF (Berkeley/IRCAM/Carl Sound Format)
  • SF2 (SoundFont 2.0 Sound Banks)
  • SFX (SoundFX)
  • SGC (Sega Master System / Game Gear / Colecovision)
  • SGI (Sound Generator 3.0 instrument)
  • SHI (ShroomTool Instrument)
  • SHO (Mario Paint)
  • SID (Commodore)
  • SID (Sidmon) (Sidmon)
  • SID2 (Sidmon II)
  • SJS (SoundPlayer)
  • SM (Sound Master)
  • SMUS (Sonix Music Driver)
  • SND (Atari ST)
  • SNDH (Atari ST)
  • SNG (SCC Musixx)
  • SNK (Paul Summers)
  • SPC (Super Nintendo SPC700)
  • SPL (Sound Programming Language)
  • SS (Speedy System)
  • SunVox

T

  • TF (Follin Player II)
  • TFMX (TFMX)
  • THM (Thomas Hermann)
  • TM2 (Theta Music Composer v2.x)
  • TM8 (8-channel stero TMC)
  • TMC (Theta Music Composer v1.x)
  • TME (The Musical Enlightenment)
  • TPU (Dirk Bialluch)
  • TW (Sound Images)

V

  • VGZ (GZipped VGM)
  • VSQ (Voice Sequence)

W

  • WB (Wally Beben)

X

  • XMF (Extensible Music Format)

Y

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

Z

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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