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Audio File Extensions

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 and manipulati...

Audio
.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 significantly reduce f...

Audio
.FLAC

Free Lossless Audio Codec

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

Audio
.AAC

Advanced Audio Coding

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

Audio
.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 compression, mea...

Audio
.AIFF

Audio Interchange File Format

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

Audio
.M4A

MPEG-4 Audio

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

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.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 multimedia playlis...

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 designed to reduc...

Audio
.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 players. It's a si...

Audio
.OPUS

Opus Audio File

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

Audio
.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 audio data is di...

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.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 file format stand...

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.M4R

MPEG 4 Ringtone

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

Audio
.PKF

Adobe Audition Peak File

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

Audio
.WMA

Windows Media Audio

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

Audio
.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 media files (a...

Audio
.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-recorded audio ...

Audio
.GIG

GigaSampler Instrument File

The .gig file format, short for GigaSampler Instrument File, is a proprietary audio sample library format originally developed by Nemes...

Audio
.SF2

SoundFont 2

SoundFont 2 (SF2) is a widely recognized file format for storing musical instrument samples and synthesis parameters. Developed by E-mu...

Audio
.SMF

Standard MIDI File

A Standard MIDI File (SMF) is a universal file format designed to store MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data, which consist...

Audio
.CPR

Cubase Project File

A CPR file is a project file created by Steinberg Cubase, a professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) used for music production, rec...

Audio
.RPP

REAPER Project File

The RPP file extension is primarily associated with REAPER (Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording), a comp...

Audio
.AUPRESET

Audio Unit Preset File

An AUPRESET file is a configuration file used by Apple's Audio Units (AU) technology, which is a system-level plug-in architecture for ...

Audio
.OGG

Ogg Vorbis

The Ogg file format is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. It is designed for streaming and manipulation of high-qual...

.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 significantly reduce file size while ...

.FLAC

Free Lossless Audio Codec

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio. Unlike lossy audio formats such as MP3, AAC, and...

.AAC

Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy audio compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor to MP3, AAC...

.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 compression, meaning it compres...

.AIFF

Audio Interchange File Format

The Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audi...

.M4A

MPEG-4 Audio

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

.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 multimedia playlist. It contains ...

.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 designed to reduce the file size...

.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 players. It's a simple and widely...

.OPUS

Opus Audio File

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

.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 audio data is discarded during ...

.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 file format standard, developed ...

.M4R

MPEG 4 Ringtone

The M4R file extension is used for iPhone ringtone files. It's essentially an AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) audio file, which is a type of MPEG-4 audio,...

.PKF

Adobe Audition Peak File

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

.WMA

Windows Media Audio

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary audio codec developed by Microsoft. It is used for storing and playing audio files, often with digital righ...

.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 media files (audio and video)...

.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-recorded audio generated from ...

.GIG

GigaSampler Instrument File

The .gig file format, short for GigaSampler Instrument File, is a proprietary audio sample library format originally developed by Nemesys and later ow...

.SF2

SoundFont 2

SoundFont 2 (SF2) is a widely recognized file format for storing musical instrument samples and synthesis parameters. Developed by E-mu Systems and Cr...

.SMF

Standard MIDI File

A Standard MIDI File (SMF) is a universal file format designed to store MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data, which consists of musical in...

.CPR

Cubase Project File

A CPR file is a project file created by Steinberg Cubase, a professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) used for music production, recording, arrangi...

.RPP

REAPER Project File

The RPP file extension is primarily associated with REAPER (Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording), a comprehensive digit...

.AUPRESET

Audio Unit Preset File

An AUPRESET file is a configuration file used by Apple's Audio Units (AU) technology, which is a system-level plug-in architecture for audio processin...

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