Audio and Music

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Electronic Formats concerned with audio and musical data, including sound recording, instrument control, musical notation, etc.

Audio and sequencer software

Audio recording and sound waves

  • Lossless compression
  • Lossy compression
  • Proprietary
    • DCT (Dictation format by NCH Software)
    • DSS (Digital Speech Standard by Olympus)
    • DVF (Digital Voice File by Sony)
    • ICS (IC Sound by Sony)
    • IKLAX (iKlax Media)
    • MSV (Memory Stick Voice by Sony)
  • Uncompressed audio
    • AIF / AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)
    • LPCM (Linear Pulse Code Modulated Audio)
    • RAW (.raw, .pcm)
    • SF (Berkeley/IRCAM/Carl Sound Format)
    • WAV (Waveform Audio File Format)
  • Various encodings

Container formats

Emulated music

Game audio and music

Metadata formats

Music trackers

Musical instrument control

Musical notation

Playlist formats

  • B4S (Winamp 3 playlist)
  • FPL (foobar2000 playlist)
  • KPL (Kazaa Playlist Format)
  • M3U (Multimedia Playlist Format)
  • PLS (Multimedia Playlist)
  • WPL (Windows Media Playlist)

Unclassified (need to move to other categories)

#

  • 2DX (2DX Audio File)
  • 2DX9 (2DX9 Audio File)

A

  • ACM (Audio Compression Manager)
  • ADM (ADM Audio File)
  • AIX (AIX Audio File)
  • AMC (AM Composer)

B

C

D

E

F

  • FCM (FC-M Packer)
  • FFW
  • FMX (Fuxoft AY Language)
  • FP (Future Player)
  • FRED (Fred Editor)
  • FUZZ (Fuzzac Packer)

G

H

I

J

  • JBL (JBM Adlib Music)
  • JC (JCalG1 DataPacker)
  • JSTM
  • JT (Jeroen Tel)

K

L

M

  • MA (Music Assembler)
  • MADX (Extended MAD)
  • MATX
  • MBM (Moonblaster Music Format)
  • MDX (MXDRV16y Music File)
  • MDX (Sharp X68000)
  • MIHB
  • MII (Mark II Sound-System)
  • MK2 (Mark 2 Sound System)
  • MKII (Mark II Sound System))
  • MKJ (MKJamz Audio)
  • MMDC (MMDC)
  • MNSTR
  • MOL (MOD4WIN Module Lists)
  • MP (Module Protector + noID)
  • MPC (Mario Paint Composer)
  • MPDS
  • MSC (AdLib MSCplay)
  • MSF
  • MSQ (Mario Sequencer)
  • MSS (Advanced Mario Sequencer)
  • MTAF
  • MTK (MPU-401 trakker)
  • MXM (Mxmplay)
  • MYI (maxYMiser Instrument)

N

  • NSD (???)
  • NSF (NES Sound Format)
  • NSFE (Extended NSF)
  • NSP (Computerized Speech Lab)

P

  • PAT (UltraSound GF1 Patches)
  • PSC (Pro Sound Creator v1.xx)
  • PSM (Pro Sound Maker)

R

  • ROL (AdLib Visual Composer)

S

  • S98 (NEC PC-98)
  • SA (Sonic Arranger)
  • SAM (MOD Edit sample)
  • SCT (Soundcontrol)
  • SD (ESPS sampled data file)
  • SF2 (SoundFont 2.0 Sound Banks)
  • SFX (SoundFX)
  • SGI (Sound Generator 3.0 instrument)
  • SHI (ShroomTool Instrument)
  • SHO (Mario Paint)
  • SID (Sidmon) (Sidmon)
  • SID2 (Sidmon II)
  • SND (Atari ST)
  • SNDH (Atari ST)
  • SNG (SCC Musixx)

T

  • TFMX (TFMX)
  • TM2 (Theta Music Composer v2.x)
  • TM8 (8-channel stero TMC)
  • TMC (Theta Music Composer v1.x)

Y

  • YM (Amstrad CPC / Spectrum ZX / Atari ST)

See the Open Cubic Player homepage for a list of demo formats: http://www.cubic.org/player/features.html

See also Piano Rolls (which is under the Physical File Formats).

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