FAQ: Audio File Formats

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Archive-name: audio-fmts/part1

Submitted-by: Guido van Rossum

Version: 3.10

Last-modified: 2-Jan-1995

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Device characteristics
• Popular sampling rates
• Compression schemes
• Current hardware
• File formats
• File conversions
• Playing audio files on UNIX
• Playing audio files on micros
• The Sound Site Newsletter
• Posting sounds

• FTP access for non-internet sites
• AIFF Format (Audio IFF)
• The NeXT/Sun audio file format
• IFF/8SVX Format
• Playing sound on a PC
• The EA-IFF-85 documentation
• US Federal Standard 1016 availability
• Creative Voice (VOC) file format
• RIFF WAVE (.WAV) file format
• U-LAW and A-LAW definitions
• AVR File Format
• The Amiga MOD Format
• The Sample Vision Format
• Some Miscellaneous Formats
• Tandy Deskmate .snd Format Notes