Audio and Music

File Format
Name	Audio and Music
Ontology	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

Ableton
- Ableton Live Audio Analysis File (.asd)
Aldrin
- Aldrin song (.ccm)
AUP (Audacity)
Cakewalk
- Cakewalk Project (CWP) (.cwp)
- Cakewalk Project (WRK) (.wrk)
- Cakewalk Sample Definition File (.sfz)
CPS project (.cps)
FruityLoops / FL Studio
- FruityLoops project file (.flp)
Garage Band (Mac)
Jacker song
Jeskola Buzz
- Jeskola Buzz machine (.dll)
- Jeskola Buzz machine preset (.prs)
- Jeskola Buzz song (.bmx)
LOGIC (Logic)
Piston Collage
- Piston Collage noise (.ptnoise)
- Piston Collage song (.ptcop, .pttune)
- Piston Collage voice (.ptvoice)
Pro Tools
- PTS (Pro Tools 7-9)
- PTX (Pro Tools 10)
Propellerhead Reason
- Propellerhead Reason NN-XT Patch File (.sx2)
- Propellerhead Reason Reason Project File (.rsn)
- Propellerhead Reason Reason Song File(.rns)
- Propellerhead Reason REX2 Audio File (.rx2)
- Propellerhead Reason ReCycle Loop File (.rex)
- Propellerhead Reason ReFill Sound Bank (.rfl)
SeaTone
- SeaTone song (.pxt)
Steinberg
- CUBASE
  - ALL - A Steinberg CUBASE VST file for saving songs (pre 2002).
  - ARR - A Steinberg CUBASE VST file for saving arrangements (pre 2002).
  - CPR - A Steinberg CUBASE SX file for saving projects (2002 - ).
  - NPR - A Steinberg NUENDO file for saving arrangements (2002 - ).
- Wavelab
  - MON (Audio montage)
SES (Cool Edit / Audition) (Cool Edit / Audition Multi Track Session file)

Audio recording and sound waves

Lossless compression
- AAL (Lossless variant of ATRAC)
- ADA (Advanced Digital Audio)
- ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
- APAC (Marian's A-pac)
- Dakx Wav
- Dolby TrueHD
- 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)
- Monkey's Audio (.ape)
- MPEG-4 ALS (MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding)
- MPEG-4 SLS (MPEG-4 Scalable lossless coding mode)
- OptimFROG (.ofr, .ofs)
- Perfect Clarity Audio (.pca)
- RALF (Real Lossless Audio Codec)
- RK Audio (.rka)
- Shorten (.shn)
- Sonarc
- Split2000
- TAK (.tak)
- True Audio (.tta)
- VocPack
- WavArc
- WavPack (WavPack Lossless)
- WavPack v4.0
- WMA Lossless (Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless)
Lossy compression
- AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
- Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation
  - ACT
  - MNF (Yamaha ADPCM)
  - SPB (Yamaha ADPCM)
  - VOX
- ATRAC or Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (.aa3, .oma, .at3)
- Audible Audiobook (.aa, .aax)
- CELT (.ogg)
- Dolby Digital (AC-3 or ATSC A/52)
- Digital Theater Systems (.dts)
- GSM (GSM 6.10 RPE-LTP)
- 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)
- RealAudio (.ra)
- Speex (.spx)
- Vorbis (.logg, .oga, .ogg)
- WMA (Windows Media Audio)
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)
- Berkeley/IRCAM/Carl Sound Format (.sf)
- LPCM (Linear Pulse Code Modulated Audio)
- RAW (.raw, .pcm)
- WAV (Waveform Audio File Format)
Various encodings
- AIFC (AIFF Compressed)
- AU (Sun Microsystems audio format)
- Computerized Speech Lab (.nsp)
- Bonk (lossy/lossless audio compression)
- INRS-Telecom file (.aud)
- SPPACK (.d)

Chiptune

Mark II Sound-System
- MII (Mark II Sound-System)
- MK2 (Mark 2 Sound System)
- MKII (Mark II Sound System))
SAM Coupé song (.cop, .sng)

Container formats

ASF (Advanced Systems Format)
CAF (Core Audio Format) (.caf)
Extensible Music Format (.xmf)
Matroska (.mka)
MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14 media container)
OGG (.ogg, .oga, .ogx, .spx, .opus)
Rich Music Format (.rmf)
RealMedia (.rm)

Emulated music

2SF (Nintendo DS PSF)
Atari SoundHeader (.sndh)
AY (Amstrad CPC / ZX Spectrum)
DSF (Dreamcast PSF)
DSFLIB (DSF Library)
EPSGMOD (.epsgmod, Mod2PSG)
Fuxoft AY Language (.fmx)
GBR (Game Boy Sound)
Game Boy Sound (.gbs)
GSF (Game Boy Advance PSF)
GSFLIB (GSF Library)
GSR (Gens Sound Record)
HES (Hudson Entertainment System)
KSS (MSX)
KSSX (Possible expansion of KSS)
MDX (Sharp X68000 / MXDRV)
MINIGSF (GSF track)
MINIPSF (PSF track)
MINIPSF2 (PSF2 track)
MINIQSF (QSF track)
MINISNSF (SNSF track)
MINISSF (SSF track)
MINIUSF (USF track)
NES Sound Format (.nsf)
NES Sound Format Extended (.nsfe)
PSF (Portable Sound Format)
PSF1 (Playstation PSF)
PSF2 (Playstation 2 PSF)
QSF (Capcom Q-Sound PSF)
QSFLIB (QSF Library)
SGC (Sega Master System / Game Gear / Colecovision)
SID (Commodore)
SND (Atari ST)
SPC (Super Nintendo SPC700)
SSF (Sega Saturn PSF)
SSFLIB (SSF Library)
USF (Nintendo 64 PSF)
USFLIB (USF library)
YM (Amstrad CPC / Spectrum ZX / Atari ST)
ZXAYEMUL Sound (.cpc)

Game audio and music

Metadata formats

MDZ - strictly not itself a music format, but a metadata file for other music files used by Open Cubic Player. See http://www.cubic.org/player/doc/node72.htm
Monkey's Audio metadata (.apl)

Music trackers

Musical instrument control

Musical notation

Playlist formats

B4S (Winamp 3 playlist)
FPL (foobar2000 playlist)
KPL (Kazaa Playlist Format)
M3U (Multimedia Playlist Format)
MOD4WIN Module List(.mol)
PLS (Multimedia Playlist)
WPL (Windows Media Playlist)

Unclassified (need to move to other categories)

ACM (Audio Compression Manager)
ADM (ADM Audio File)
B1S
BDSP (BotDetect Sound Package)
BVG
CBD2
DSM (DSIK Internal)
DSPW
DTK
FFW
First Rate Music Hall (.pck, MSX-Music song editor using Music Macro Language)
GBTS
GCUB
GSB
HLWAV
IAB
IADP
INT (RAW File)
ISWS
JSTM
KOVS
MA (Music Assembler)
MNSTR
MSF
MTAF
Onyx Music File (.omf)
S98 (NEC PC-98)
SD (ESPS sampled data file)
SF2 (SoundFont 2.0 Sound Banks)
SGI (Sound Generator 3.0 instrument)
SNG (SCC Musixx)
Sound Effect Editor (.see, MSX)
TFMX (TFMX)

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

Audio and Music

Audio and sequencer software

Audio recording and sound waves

Chiptune

Container formats

Emulated music

Game audio and music

Metadata formats

Music trackers

Musical instrument control

Musical notation

Playlist formats

Unclassified (need to move to other categories)

Audio and Music

Audio and sequencer software

Audio recording and sound waves

Chiptune

Container formats

Emulated music

Game audio and music

Metadata formats

Music trackers

Musical instrument control

Musical notation

Playlist formats

Unclassified (need to move to other categories)

Personal tools

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