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Chris Bagwell,
v4.0, 14 Nov 1998
This document provides a description of how audio files are used onvarious computer platforms and provides a detailed description oftheir internal formats.
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Audio File Formats FAQ
Chris Bagwell, chris@cnpbagwell.com
v4.0, 14 Nov 1998
This document provides a description of how audio files are used onvarious computer platforms and provides a detailed description oftheir internal formats.
1. Introduction.
2. Device characteristics.
3. Popular sampling rates.
4. Compression schemes.
- 4.1 ITU-T G.711, u-law and A-law.
- 4.2 CCITT G.721, G.723, and ITU-T G.726.
- 4.3 IMA/DVI ADPCM
- 4.4 Microsoft ADPCM
- 4.5 LPC-10E
- 4.6 CELP
- 4.7 GSM 06.10.
- 4.8 shorten.
- 4.9 Real Audio
- 4.10 MPEG
- 4.11 Misc.
5. Current hardware.
6. Overview of file formats.
7. File conversions.
- 7.1 SOX (UNIX, PC, Amiga)
- 7.2 Sun Sparc.
- 7.3 NeXT.
- 7.4 SGI Indigo, Indigo2, Indy and Personal IRIS.
- 7.5 Amiga.
- 7.6 Apple Macintosh
8. Playing audio files on UNIX.
- 8.1 Sun Sparcstation running SunOS 4.x.
- 8.2 Solaris.
- 8.3 NeXT
- 8.4 SGI Indigo, Indigo2, Indy and Personal IRIS.
- 8.5 Linux
- 8.6 Others.
9. Playing audio files on the Vaxstation 4000 (VMS).
10. Playing audio files on a PC.
- 10.1 PC or compatible.
- 10.2 IBM PC and compatibles.
- 10.3 Atari.
- 10.4 Tandy.
- 10.5 Amiga.
- 10.6 Apple Macintosh.
11. File Formats.
- 11.1 AIFF Format (Audio IFF) and AIFC.
- 11.2 The NeXT/Sun audio file format.
- 11.3 IFF/8SVX Format.
- 11.4 US Federal Standard 1016 availability.
- 11.5 Creative Voice (VOC) file format.
- 11.6 RIFF WAVE (.WAV) file format.
- 11.7 u-law and A-law definitions.
- 11.8 AVR File Format.
- 11.9 The Amiga MOD Format.
- 11.10 The Sample Vision Format.
- 11.11 Tandy Deskmate .snd Format Notes.
- 11.12 Miscellaneous Formats.
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