SWA

File Format
Name	SWA
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music SWA
Extension(s)	.swa
Type Code	SwaT
Released	1995

Macromedia licensed the MP3 technology in 1995 to use in their Shockwave product. .SWA or Shockwave Audio was originally added as a free plugin (Xtras) to SoundEdit 16 to export AIFF files to .SWA.

File Format

.SWA files have the same structure as MP3 files but with padding at the beginning of the file. Samples show the hex values 00 00 01 40 00 00 00 03 00 00 for the first 10 bytes (but may be different for each sample). No ID3 tags obviously.

Software

• Shockwave Developer Tools for SoundEdit 16 plugin & samples
• Macromedia SoundEdit 16 v1.0.1 CD
• FFmpeg

Sample files

• dexvert samples — audio/shockWaveAudio
• SWA Files
• More SWA Samples