.WAV is Window's native lossless audio format.AIFF is Apple's native lossless audio format.MP3 is a common compressed audio format.OGG is slightly less commonThere are many many more
Currently you can only purchase iTunes Plus format AAC files from the iTunes store. There only two possible options. Purchase the actual CD and use iTunes to rip it to Apple Lossless. Go to the website listed below and request them to start offering music in Apple Lossless. I would also recommend requesting them to offer support for .flac files as that is the most commonly used lossless music format at the moment.
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Not directly. If you convert the files to MP3, you can then use windows explorer or Windows Media Player to push the files to your computer. The devices are not recognized by Apple computers - so there is no compatibility there.
The default audio formats that can be imported into iTunes are AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3, or WAV.
Zune does not support .wav files. You need to convert them into .wma lossless files for Zune to be able to play them. Supposedly the reason for this is that .wma files are smaller, with no loss of sound quality.
Lossless. Compression techniques do not remove detail from the image.
No, Windows Media Center does not convert AVI files to DVD format. However, it is capable of playing most AVI files.
MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC and Apple Lossless (.m4a) including QuickTime's supported files.
X Lossless Decoder (XLD) will open FLAC and Cue files. (See links below)
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.WMAHope this helps :)Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/What_type_of_files_are_audio_files#ixzz1CNvmciUf
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