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Audio Files are file extensions used to play, open or edit sound files (files you can hear such as music).

There are three major groups of audio file formats:

  • Uncompressed audio formats, such as WAV, AIFF, AU or raw header-less PCM;
  • formats with lossless compression, such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio (filename extension APE), WavPack (filename extension WV), Shorten, TTA, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, Apple Lossless, MPEG-4 SLS, MPEG-4 ALS, MPEG-4 DST, Windows Media Audio Lossless (WMA Lossless).
  • formats with lossy compression, such as MP3, Vorbis, Musepack, AAC, ATRAC and lossy Windows Media Audio (WMA).

Some Common Audio File Extensions include but are not limited to:

.WAV

.AVI

.Mp3

.Mp4

.WMA

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There are a few but the most common are .mp3, .m4a and .aif

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