MPEG Audio Layer II

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File Format
Name MPEG Audio Layer II
Ontology
Extension(s) .mp2, .mpa
MIME Type(s) audio/mpeg, audio/MPA
LoCFDD fdd000338
PRONOM fmt/198
Released 1993

MPEG Audio Layer II, also known as MP2 (but not to be confused with MPEG-2), is a compressed audio format. There are two versions of it: MPEG-1 Audio Layer II and MPEG-2 Audio Layer II.

It is one of the standards defined in MPEG-1 Part 3 (ISO/IEC 11172-3), and in MPEG-2 Part 3 (ISO/IEC 13818-3).

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