The following file formats, are supported for reading ® and / or writing (W):
Ext. R/W Format description
3G2 R+W 3GPP 'project 2' file format. *
3GP R+W 3GPP file format. *
AAC R+W MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADTS container format). *
AAC R MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADIF container format). *
AAC R MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format ('raw' format). *
AIFC R Compressed Audio Interchange File Format.
AIF R+W Audio Interchange File Format.
AIFF R+W Audio Interchange File Format.
ALAW R+W G.711 A-law european telephony format.
ALW R+W G.711 A-law european telephony format.
AMR R+W MIME 'AMR file storage' format. *
APE R+W Monkey Audio lossless compression.
ASF R ActiveMovie streaming format. *
ATAK?? R+W Soundscape Audio-Take files.
AU R+W Sun/NeXT/DEC audio files.
AVI R Microsoft Audio Video Interleave files.
AVR R Audio Visual Research sound file.
CAF R+W Apple CoreAudio file format.
CAFF R+W Apple CoreAudio file format.
CDA R Audio CD tracks. CD
CDR R Audio CD compatible raw data.
COD R+W 3GPP 'AMR interface format 2'. *
DIG R Digilink format.
DIG R Sound Designer I files.
DSS R Olympus DSS files. *
DWD R+W DiamondWare digitized files.
ESPS R ESPS audio files.
F32 R+W Floating point raw 32-bit IEEE data.
F64 R+W Floating point raw 64-bit IEEE data.
FLAC R+W Free lossless audio codec files. *
G721 R+W G.721 4-bit (32 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G723 R+W G.723 3/5-bit ADPCM format data.
G723-3 R+W G.723 3-bit (24 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G723-5 R+W G.723 5-bit (40 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G726 R+W G.726 2/3/4/5-bit ADPCM format data.
G726-2 R+W G.726 2-bit (16 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G726-3 R+W G.726 3-bit (24 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G726-4 R+W G.726 4-bit (32 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G726-5 R+W G.726 5-bit (40 kbps) ADPCM format data.
GSM R+W Raw GSM 06.10 audio streasm.
GSM R+W Raw 'byte aligned' GSM 06.10 audio streams.
GSM R+W US Robotics voice modems GSM w.o. header (VoiceGuide, RapidComm).
GSM R+W US Robotics voice modems GSM w. header (QuickLink).
IFF R+W Interchange file format.
INRS R INRS-Telecommunications audio files.
M4A R+W iTunes MPEG-4 audio format. *
M4R R+W iPhone ring-tone. *
MAT R+W Matlab variables binary files.
MOV R+W Apple QuickTime movie format. *
MP1 R MPEG audio streams, layer I.
MP2 R+W MPEG audio streams, layer II. *
MP3 R+W MPEG audio streams, layer III. *
MP4 R+W MPEG-4 base media file format. *
MPA R MPEG audio streams, layer I, II, 'II½' or III.
MPC R+W Musepack audio compression.
MPEG R MPEG system streams, audio+video.
MPG R MPEG system streams, audio+video.
MTS R Media Touch Systems MPEG audio layer II.
MUS R Musifile MPEG Layer II audio stream.
NIST R+W NIST Sphere files.
NVF R+W Creative Labs Nomad voice files.
OGG R+W Vorbis Ogg streams. *
PAF R+W Ensoniq PARIS audio files.
PSION R PSION a-law files.
RA W RealAudio files. *
RAW R Signed 8-bit PCM data.
RIF R+W Rockwell ADPCM format (Hotfax/Quicklink).
ROCKWELL-2 R+W Rockwell 2-bit ADPCM data.
ROCKWELL-3 R+W Rockwell 3-bit ADPCM data.
ROCKWELL-4 R+W Rockwell 4-bit ADPCM data.
SAM R Signed 8-bit PCM files.
SB R+W Signed byte (8-bit) data.
SD R+W Sound Designer I files.
SD2 R+W Sound Designer II flattened files.
SD2 R+W Sound Designer II data forks.
SDW R+W Signed dword (32-bit) data.
SF R+W IRCAM / MTU SoundFile format.
SFR R Sonic Foundry sample resource files.
SHN R+W Shorten lossless compression.
SMP R Samplevision files.
SND R+W Unsigned 8-bit PCM data (W as .UB).
SNDR R Sounder sound files.
SNDT R SndTools sound files.
SPD R Speech data files.
SPPACK R+W SPPack sound sample.
SVX R Interchange file format.
SW R+W Signed word (16-bit) data.
TXT R+W Ascii text formatted audio data.
U255LAW R+W Exponential 8-bit format.
UB R+W Unsigned byte (8-bit) data.
UDW R+W Unsigned dword (32-bit) data.
ULAW R+W G.711 mu-law US telephony format.
ULW R+W G.711 mu-law US telephony format.
UW R+W Unsigned word (16-bit) data.
V8 R Covox 8-bit audio.
VAG R+W Sony Playstation / PS2 compressed sound files.
VAP R+W Annotated speech files.
VM1 R Panasonic voice file.
VOC R+W Creative Labs 'newer style' sound files.
VOC R+W Creative Labs 'older style' sound files.
VOX R+W Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files.
VOX-6K R+W Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files (6000 Hz).
VOX-8K R+W Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files (8000 Hz).
W64 R+W Sonic Foundry Wave-64 format.
WAV R+W Microsoft wave format.
WAV R+W Microsoft 'extensible' wave format.
WAV R+W Broadcast wave format (EBU BWF). *
WAV R+W Multichannel Broadcast wave format (EBU RF64).
WMA R+W Windows Media Audio 4. *
WMA R+W Windows Media Audio 9 CBR. *
WMA R+W Windows Media Audio 9 ABR. *
WMA R+W Windows Media Audio 9 VBR. *
WMA R+W Windows Media Audio 9 Voice. *
WMA R+W Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless. *
WMA R+W Windows Media Audio 9 Pro CBR/ABR/VBR. *
WMV R Windows Media Video file. *
WV R+W WavPack lossless compression. *
YADPCM R+W Raw Yamaha 4-bit ADPCM format data.
R Indicates support for Reading a format.
W Indicates support for Writing a format.
Indicates that the format can be auto-detected - even with the wrong extension.
* Indicates that a free 3rd party add-on may be needed for reading and/or writing certain compressed data formats (click on the format extension to get more info).
System Requirements
IBM or compatible Pentium/AMD processor (900 MHz or greater), 512 MB RAM or greater. 1024 x 768, 16-bit display (32-bit recommended)
Windows 2000 SP (Service Pack) 4+
Windows XP SP2+ x32 and x64 Editions
Windows Vista all SP x32 and x64 Editions
Windows 7 x32 and x64 Editions
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