Comparison of audio formats. General information[edit] Notes[edit] The 'Music' category is merely a guideline on commercialized uses of a particular format, not a technical assessment of its capabilities.
(For example, in terms of marketshare, MP3 and AAC dominate the personal audio market, though many other formats are comparably well suited to fill this role from a purely technical standpoint.)First public release date is first of either specification publishing or source releasing, or in the case of closed-specification, closed-source codecs, is the date of first binary releasing. Many developing codecs have pre-releases consisting of pre-1.0 versions and perhaps 1.0 release candidates (RCs), although 1.0 may not necessarily be the release version.Latest stable version is that of specification or reference tools.If there happens to be OSI licensed software available for a particular format, this does not necessarily permit one to use said codec free of charge.
Operating system support[edit] Audio file format. §Format types[edit] It is important to distinguish between the audio coding format, the container containing the raw audio data, and an audio codec.
A codec performs the encoding and decoding of the raw audio data while this encoded data is (usually) stored in a container file. Although most audio file formats support only one type of audio coding data (created with an audio coder), a multimedia container format (as Matroska or AVI) may support multiple types of audio and video data. There are three major groups of audio file formats: §Uncompressed audio format[edit] Who are Green Home Electronics? : greenhomeshop.co.uk, used hi fi stereo and audio equipment for sale.