Audio File Extensions

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Browse all Audio file extensions with detailed information about compatibility, usage, and alternatives.

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.ogg

Ogg Vorbis

The Ogg file format is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. It is designed for streaming...

.mp3

MPEG Audio Layer III

MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer III) is a widely used audio coding format for digital audio. It's known for its ability to signifi...

.flac

Free Lossless Audio Codec

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio. Unlike lossy audio...

.aac

Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy audio compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed t...

.opus

Opus Audio File

Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and standardized as RFC 6716...

.wma lossless

Windows Media Audio Lossless

Windows Media Audio Lossless (WMA Lossless) is an audio codec developed by Microsoft. It's designed for lossless audio c...

.m4a

MPEG-4 Audio

M4A (MPEG-4 Audio) is a filename extension used to represent audio files encoded with Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or App...

.ape

Monkey's Audio

Monkey's Audio (APE) is a lossless audio compression format. This means that, unlike lossy formats like MP3 or AAC, no a...

.wav

Waveform Audio File Format

The Waveform Audio File Format (WAV, or less commonly WAVE due to MS-DOS 8.3 file name limits) is a widely used audio fi...

.tts

Text-to-Speech Voice File

The .tts file extension is commonly associated with text-to-speech (TTS) voice files. These files typically contain pre-...

.aiff

Audio Interchange File Format

The Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal compu...

.m4r

MPEG 4 Ringtone

The M4R file extension is used for iPhone ringtone files. It's essentially an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) audio file, wh...

.wma

Windows Media Audio

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary audio codec developed by Microsoft. It is used for storing and playing audio ...

.alac

Apple Lossless Audio Codec

The ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) file format is a lossless audio compression format developed by Apple Inc. It's de...

.m3u

UTF-8 M3U Playlist

An M3U (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator) file is a plain text file that stores a mul...

.pls

PLS Playlist File

A PLS (Playlist) file is a plain text file format used to store a list of audio or video files for playback in media pla...

.wpl

Windows Media Player Playlist

A WPL file is a playlist format used by Windows Media Player. It's essentially an XML-based file that contains a list of...

.pkf

Adobe Audition Peak File

Adobe Audition Peak files (.pkf) are auxiliary files created by Adobe Audition, a professional audio editing and digital...

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