m4a), MPEG-4 SLS, MPEG-4 ALS, MPEG-4 DST, Windows Media Audio Lossless (WMA Lossless), and Shorten (SHN). wv), TTA, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, ALAC ( filename extension.
Formats with lossless compression, such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( filename extension.Uncompressed audio formats, such as WAV, AIFF, AU or raw header-less PCM.There are three major groups of audio file formats: Although most audio file formats support only one type of audio coding data (created with an audio coder), a multimedia container format (as Matroska or AVI) may support multiple types of audio and video data. A codec performs the encoding and decoding of the raw audio data while this encoded data is (usually) stored in a container file.
It is important to distinguish between the audio coding format, the container containing the raw audio data, and an audio codec.
