A audio or sound format & file is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. There are several different sound format & file. Each sound file contain some header information.
8KHz (Phone) or 8.012820513kHz (Phone, NeXT) 11.025kHz (1/4 CD std) 16kHz (G.722 std) 22.05kHz (1/2 CD std) 44.1kHz (CD, DAT) 48kHz (DAT)
Bits per Sample 8 or 16
Number of Channels mono/stereo/quad/ etc.
Common Sound File Formats
Mulaw (Sun, NeXT) .au
RIFF Wave (MS WAV) .wav
MPEG Audio Layer (MPEG) .mp2 .mp3
AIFC (Apple, SGI) .aiff .aif
HCOM (Mac) .hcom
SND (Sun, NeXT) .snd
VOC (Soundblaster card proprietary standard) .voc
Audio format defines the quality and loss of audio data
Uncompressed Format
In this method no processing happened. It consists of real sound waves that have been captured and converted to digital format.
PCM , WAV, AIFF
Lossy Compressed format
When some data is lost during the compression process. The compressed audio file is reduced in size than the source audio file. Compression is important because uncompressed audio takes up lots of disk space.
MP3, WMA
Lossless Compressed Format
In this compression process no losses happened like earlier method, i.e Lossy Compressed Format. In this method the compressed file & source file is equal in size.
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