Audio file formats make a big difference to the quality of the music you listen to. Get the ins and outs on the most popular formats and find out why they're important.

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If you know one audio file format, it’ll be the MP3. It’s one of the most common file formats out there, popular for its versatility and mass compatibility.

Audio file formats span a spectrum from pristine but bulky (WAV, AIFF) through clever, lossless space savers (FLAC, ALAC) to pocket-sized workhorses (AAC, MP3) and specialty exotica ...

PCM files come in bit-depths of either 16, 24 or 32 bits and sample rates range from 44.1kHz up to 384kHz these days, although you’ll be hard pressed to find many audio files to download at ...

It supports the audio formats WAV, MP3, WMA, M4A, OGG, AVI, FLAC, AAC, AU, AIF, WMA, etc. Switch Audio File Converter’s free version is for non-commercial use. It doesn’t have any time-limit ...

The claims for MQA are impressive. It’s an audio format that can be downloaded, streamed, or even played from a CD, and yet it’s also purportedly capable of delivering hi-res audio from a file ...

Video file formats. The most common video file formats are MP4 (MPEG-4, which can also be used just for audio files), AVI (Microsoft’s Audio Video Interleave format) and MOV (Apple movie file ...

1. Wav files are uncompressed audio files, which means they are HUGE in file size, but they are also the very best quality sound. 2. The MP3 format (most popular) is a compressed sound sequence ...