| Ext. | R/W | Format description
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| 3G2 | R+W | 3GPP 'project 2' file format. *
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| 3GP | R+W | 3GPP file format. *
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| AAC | R+W | MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADTS container format). *
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| AAC | R | MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADIF container format). *
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| AAC | R | MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format ('raw' format). *
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| AIFC | R | Compressed Audio Interchange File Format. 
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| AIF | R+W | Audio Interchange File Format. 
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| AIFF | R+W | Audio Interchange File Format. 
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| ALAW | R+W | G.711 A-law european telephony format.
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| ALW | R+W | G.711 A-law european telephony format.
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| AMR | R+W | MIME 'AMR file storage' format. *
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| APE | R+W | Monkey Audio losslessly compressed files. 
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| ASF | R | ActiveMovie streaming format. *
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| ATAK?? | R+W | Soundscape Audio-Take files. 
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| AU | R+W | Sun/NeXT/DEC audio files. 
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| AVI | R | Microsoft Audio Video Interleave files. 
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| AVR | R | Audio Visual Research sound file. 
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| CAF | R+W | Apple CoreAudio file format. 
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| CAFF | R+W | Apple CoreAudio file format. 
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| CDA | R | Audio CD tracks. CD
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| CDR | R | Audio CD compatible raw data.
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| COD | R+W | 3GPP 'AMR interface format 2'. *
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| DIG | R | Digilink format. 
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| DIG | R | Sound Designer I files.
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| DSS | R | Olympus DSS files. *
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| DWD | R+W | DiamondWare digitized files. 
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| ESPS | R | ESPS audio files. 
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| F32 | R+W | Floating point raw 32-bit IEEE data.
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| F64 | R+W | Floating point raw 64-bit IEEE data.
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| FLAC | R+W | Free lossless audio codec files. *
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| G721 | R+W | G.721 4-bit (32 kbps) ADPCM format data.
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| G723 | R+W | G.723 3/5-bit ADPCM format data.
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| G723-3 | R+W | G.723 3-bit (24 kbps) ADPCM format data.
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| G723-5 | R+W | G.723 5-bit (40 kbps) ADPCM format data.
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| G726 | R+W | G.726 2/3/4/5-bit ADPCM format data.
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| G726-2 | R+W | G.726 2-bit (16 kbps) ADPCM format data.
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| G726-3 | R+W | G.726 3-bit (24 kbps) ADPCM format data.
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| G726-4 | R+W | G.726 4-bit (32 kbps) ADPCM format data.
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| G726-5 | R+W | G.726 5-bit (40 kbps) ADPCM format data.
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| GSM | R+W | Raw GSM 06.10 audio streasm.
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| GSM | R+W | Raw 'byte aligned' GSM 06.10 audio streams.
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| GSM | R+W | US Robotics voice modems GSM w.o. header (VoiceGuide, RapidComm). 
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| GSM | R+W | US Robotics voice modems GSM w. header (QuickLink). 
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| IFF | R+W | Interchange file format. 
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| INRS | R | INRS-Telecommunications audio files.
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| M4A | R+W | iTunes MPEG-4 audio format. *
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| M4R | R+W | iPhone ring-tone. *
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| MAT | R+W | Matlab variables binary files. 
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| MOV | R+W | Apple QuickTime movie format. *
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| MP1 | R | MPEG audio streams, layer I.
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| MP2 | R+W | MPEG audio streams, layer II. *
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| MP3 | R+W | MPEG audio streams, layer III. *
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| MP4 | R+W | MPEG-4 base media file format. *
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| MPA | R | MPEG audio streams, layer I, II, 'II½' or III.
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| MPEG | R | MPEG system streams, audio+video. 
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| MPG | R | MPEG system streams, audio+video. 
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| MTS | R | Media Touch Systems MPEG audio layer II. 
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| MUS | R | Musifile MPEG Layer II audio stream. 
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| NIST | R+W | NIST Sphere files. 
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| NVF | R+W | Creative Labs Nomad voice files. 
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| OGG | R+W | Vorbis Ogg streams. *
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| PAF | R+W | Ensoniq PARIS audio files. 
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| PSION | R | PSION a-law files. 
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| RA | W | RealAudio files. *
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| RAW | R | Signed 8-bit PCM data.
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| RIF | R+W | Rockwell ADPCM format (Hotfax/Quicklink). 
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| ROCKWELL-2 | R+W | Rockwell 2-bit ADPCM data.
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| ROCKWELL-3 | R+W | Rockwell 3-bit ADPCM data.
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| ROCKWELL-4 | R+W | Rockwell 4-bit ADPCM data.
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| SAM | R | Signed 8-bit PCM files.
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| SB | R+W | Signed byte (8-bit) data.
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| SD | R+W | Sound Designer I files. 
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| SD2 | R+W | Sound Designer II flattened files. 
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| SD2 | R+W | Sound Designer II data forks.
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| SDW | R+W | Signed dword (32-bit) data.
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| SF | R+W | IRCAM / MTU SoundFile format. 
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| SFR | R | Sonic Foundry sample resource files. 
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| SMP | R | Samplevision files. 
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| SND | R+W | Unsigned 8-bit PCM data (W as .UB).
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| SNDR | R | Sounder sound files. 
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| SNDT | R | SndTools sound files. 
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| SPD | R | Speech data files.
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| SPPACK | R+W | SPPack sound sample. 
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| SVX | R | Interchange file format. 
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| SW | R+W | Signed word (16-bit) data.
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| TXT | R+W | Ascii text formatted audio data. 
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| U255LAW | R+W | Exponential 8-bit format.
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| UB | R+W | Unsigned byte (8-bit) data.
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| UDW | R+W | Unsigned dword (32-bit) data.
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| ULAW | R+W | G.711 mu-law US telephony format.
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| ULW | R+W | G.711 mu-law US telephony format.
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| UW | R+W | Unsigned word (16-bit) data.
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| V8 | R | Covox 8-bit audio. 
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| VAG | R+W | Sony Playstation / PS2 compressed sound files. 
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| VAP | R+W | Annotated speech files.
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| VM1 | R | Panasonic voice file.
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| VOC | R+W | Creative Labs 'newer style' sound files. 
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| VOC | R+W | Creative Labs 'older style' sound files. 
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| VOX | R+W | Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files. 
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| VOX-6K | R+W | Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files (6000 Hz). 
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| VOX-8K | R+W | Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files (8000 Hz). 
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| W64 | R+W | Sonic Foundry Wave-64 format. 
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| WAV | R+W | Microsoft wave format. 
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| WAV | R+W | Microsoft 'extensible' wave format. 
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| WAV | R+W | Broadcast wave format (EBU BWF). *
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| WAV | R+W | Multichannel Broadcast wave format (EBU RF64). 
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| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 4. *
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| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 CBR. *
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| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 ABR. *
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| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 VBR. *
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| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 Voice. *
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| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless. *
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| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 Pro CBR/ABR/VBR. *
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| WMV | R | Windows Media Video file. *
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| WV | R+W | WavPack losslessly compressed files. *
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| YADPCM | R+W | Raw Yamaha 4-bit ADPCM format data.
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