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Electronic Formats concerned with Audio Data.

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• 2SF (Nintendo DS PSF)
• 669 (Composer 669 module)
• 8SV / 8SVX (IFF-8SVX)

A

• AA3 (Advanced Transform Acoustic Coding)
• AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
• AAM (Art & Magic)
• ABK (AMOS Music Bank)
• AC1D (AC1D-DC1A Packer)
• AC3 (Dolby Digital AC-3)
• AGI (Sierra AGI)
• AHX (Commodore Amiga)
• AIFC (AIFF Compressed)
• AIF / AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)
• ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
• AMC (AM Composer)
• AMF (ASYLUM Music Format / Advanced Music Format)
• AMS (Velvet Studio AMS 1.x modules.)
• APE (Monkey's Audio)
• AST (Actionamics Sound Tool)
• AT3 (Advanced Transform Acoustic Coding)
• AU (Sun Microsystems audio format)
• AY (Amstrad CPC / ZX Spectrum)

B

• B4S (Winamp 3 playlist)
• BD (Benn Daglish)
• BDS (Benn Daglish SID)
• BP (SoundMon 2.0) (SoundMon 2.0)
• BP (SoundMon 2.2) (SoundMon 2.2)
• BSS (Beathoven Synthesiser)

C

• CHAN (Channel Players)
• CIN (Cinemaware)
• CM (CustomMade)
• CM3 (CMC "3/4")
• CMC (Chaos Music Composer)
• CMR (CMC "Rzog")
• CMS (Stereo Double CMC)
• COP (SAM Coupe)
• CORE (Core Design)
• CUST (DeliTracker Custom)
• CWP (Cakewalk Project)

D

• D00 (Adlib OPL)
• DAT (Paul Robotham)
• DBM (DigiBooster modules)
• DCT (Format designed for dictation by NCH Software)
• DH (David Hanney)
• DI (Digital Illusions)
• DIGI (DIGI Booster)
• DL (Dave Lowe)
• DLN (Dave Lowe New)
• DLS (Downloadable Sounds Banks)
• DLT (Delta Music Composer)
• DM2 (Delta Music 2.0)
• DMF (Delusion Digital Music Format)
• DNS (Dynamic Synthesizer)
• DSC (Digital Sonix & Chrome)
• DMC (DoublePlay CMC)
• DSF (Dreamcast PSF)
• DSFLIB (DSF Library)
• DSM (DSIK)
• DSR (Desire)
• DSS (Digital Speech Standard)
• DTM (DigiTrekker)
• DTS
• DVF (Sony Digital Audio recorders)
• DW (David Whittaker)
• DZ (Darius Zendeh)

E

• EMS (Editeur Musical Sequentiel)
• EX (Fashion Tracker)

F

• F2R (Farandole Form 2.0)
• FAR (Farandole Composer)
• FC (Future Composer)
• FC13 (Future Composer v1.3)
• FC14 (Future Composer v1.4)
• FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
• FLP (FruityLoops / FL Studio project files)
• FNK (FunkTracker)
• FP (Future Player)
• FPT (Farandole Composer pattern)
• FRED (Fred Editor)
• FSM (Farandole Composer Sample / Instrument)
• FW (FWMP)

G

• GBS (Game Boy Sound)
• GDM (General Digital Music)
• GMC (Game Music Creator)
• GRAY (Fred Gray)
• GSF (Game Boy Advance PSF)
• GSFLIB (GSF Library)
• GSM (Raw GSM 6.10 Audio Stream)
• GYM (Genesis YM2612)

H

• HAN (Digital Sound Creations)
• HD (Howie Davies)
• HES (Hudson Entertainment System)
• HIP (Hippel)
• HIPC (Hippel-COSO)
• HVL (Hively Tracker)

I

• IMF (AdLib Sound Card)
• IMF (Imago Orpheus)
• IMS (Images)
• INS (Infogrames)
• IT (ImpulseTracker module)
• ITS (Impulse Tracker Samples)

J

• JAM (JamCracker)
• JCB (Jason Brooke)
• JD (Special FX)
• JPO (Steve Turner)
• JMF (Janko Mrsic-Flogel)
• JO (Jesper Olsen)
• JPN (Jason Page)
• JT (Jeroen Tel)

K

• KH (Kris Hatlelid)
• KPL (Kazaa Playlist Format)
• KSS (MSX)
• KSSX (Possible expansion of KSS

L

• LME (Leggless Music Editor)
• LPCM (Linear Pulse Code Modulated Audio)

M

• M3U (Multimedia Playlist Format)
• M4A (MPEG-4 Audio)
• M4P (Fairplay DRM Encrypted M4A)
• M4R (Apple iPhone Ringtones - see M4A)
• MAD (PlayerPRO module)
• MADX (Extended MAD)
• MBM (Moonblaster Music Format)
• MC (Mark Cooksey)
• MD (Mike Davies)
• MDL (Digitrakker)
• MDX (Sharp X68000)
• MED (OctaMED module)
• MFP (Magnetic Fields Packer)
• MID / MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
• MII (Mark II Sound-System)
• MINIPSF (PSF track)
• MINIGSF (GSF track)
• MINIQSF (QSF track)
• MINISSF (SSF track)
• MINIUSF (USF track)
• MDAT (TFMX) (TFMX pattern data)
• MDAT (TFMX 7V) (TFMX 7V)
• MDAT (TFMX Pro) (TFMX Pro)
• MDL (DigiTracker 1.x)
• MMDC (MMDC)
• MNF (Yamaha ADPCM)
• MO3 (MO3-compressed modules)
• MOD (Amiga Module)
• MOK (Silmarils)
• MON (M.O.N New / Old)
• MP2 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer II)
• MP3 (MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)
• MPC (Mario Paint Composer)
• MPD (MPT DoublePlay)
• MPT (Music Pro Tracker)
• MPTM (Open MODPlug Tracker)
• MSQ (Mario Sequencer)
• MSS (Advanced Mario Sequencer)
• MSV (Sony dictation machines)
• MT2 (MadTracker 2)
• MTM (MultiTracker)
• MUG (Mugician)
• MUG2 (Mugician II)
• MW (Martin Walker)
• MXTX (MaxTrax)

N

• NP2 (NoisePacker v2.x)
• NP3 (NoisePacker v3.x)
• NSD (???)
• NSF (NES Sound Format)
• NSFE (Extended NSF)
• NST (NoiseTracker)
• NTP (NovoTrade Packer)

O

• OGG (Ogg Vorbis audio file)
• OKT (Oktalyzer module)
• OKTA (Oktalyzer module)
• OMA (Advanced Transform Acoustic Coding)
• ORC (TRS-80 Orchestra-90)
• OSP (Synth Pack)

P

• P4X (The Player v4.x)
• P6X (The Player v6.x)
• PAC (SBStudio II
• PAP (Pierre Adane Packer)
• PAT (UltraSound GF1 Patches)
• PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)
• PHA (Pha Packer)
• PLS (Multimedia Playlists)
• 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)
• PSF (Portable Sound Format)
• PSF (Soundfactory)
• PSF2 (Playstation 2 PSF)
• PSM (Epic Megagames MASI)
• PTM (PolyTracker)
• PUMA (PumaTracker)
• PVP (Peter Verswyvelen Packer)

Q

• QSF (Capcom Q-Sound PSF)
• QSFLIB (QSF Library)

R

• RA (RealAudio)
• RAD (Reality AdLib Tracker)
• RAW (AdLib Sound Card)
• RAW (RAW sample data)
• RH (Rob Hubbard)
• RHO (Rob Hubbard Old)
• RJP (Richard Joseph)
• RK (Ron Klaren)
• RM (RealMedia)
• RMT (Raster Music Tracker)
• ROL (AdLib Visual Composer)

S

• S31 (ScreamTracker 3 / DigiTracker Samples)
• S3M (Scream Tracker 3 module)
• S98 (NEC PC-98)
• SA (Sonic Arranger)
• SA2 (Surprise Adlib Tracker)
• SAM (MOD Edit sample)
• SAP (Atari POKEY)
• SB (Steve Barrett)
• SCI (Used in Sierra PC games)
• SCN (Sean Connolly)
• SCR (Sean Conran)
• SCT (Soundcontrol)
• SCUMM (SCUMM)
• SDR (Synth Dream)
• SF2 (SoundFont 2.0 Sound Banks)
• SFX (SoundFX)
• SFZ (Cakewalk Sample Definition File)
• SGC (Sega Master System / Game Gear / Colecovision)
• SHI (ShroomTool Instrument)
• SHO (Mario Paint)
• SID (Commodore)
• SID (Sidmon) (Sidmon)
• SID2 (Sidmon II)
• SJS (SoundPlayer)
• SM (Sound Master)
• SMP (ScreamTracker 3 / DigiTracker Samples)
• SMPL (TFMX sample data)
• SMUS (Sonix Music Driver)
• SNDH (Atari ST)
• SNG (SCC Musixx)
• SNK (Paul Summers)
• SPB (Yamaha ADPCM)
• SPC (Super Nintendo SPC700)
• SPL (Sound Programming Language)
• SPU (Sony Playstation)
• SS (Speedy System)
• SSF (Sega Saturn PSF)
• SSFLIB (SSF Library)
• ST26 (SoundTracker 2.6)
• STM (Scream Tracker module)

T

• TAK (Tom's Lossless Audio Kompressor)
• 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)
• TP3 (Trackerpacker 3)
• TPU (Dirk Bialluch)
• TTA (True Audio)
• TW (Sound Images)

U

• UDS (Unique Development)
• ULT (UltraTracker)
• UMX (Unreal Music Format)
• USF (Nintendo 64 PSF)
• USM (Unsigned FSM)
• USFLIB (USF library)

V

• VB2 (Playstation / PS2)
• VOX
• VGM (Videogame Music)
• VGZ (GZipped VGM)
• VTX (Vortex Tracker)

W

• WAV (Waveform Audio File Format)
• WB (Wally Beben)
• WMA (Windows Media Audio)
• WOW (Grave Composer)
• WRK (Cakewalk Project)
• WSR (Bandai WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color)

X

• XI (FastTracker instrument)
• XM (FastTracker 2 module)

Y

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