Common Files Types for Digitized Sounds

A sound file's format is simply a recognized methodology for organizing the digitized sound's data bits and bytes into a data file.

MP3 Audio -- .mp3 -- audio/mpge

MPEG audio stream -- .mpg -- audio/mpeg

REalAudio -- .ra -- audio/x-pn-realaudio

Windows Media -- .wma -- audio/x-ms-wma

WAV Audio -- .wav -- audio/wav

MPEG-1 Audio Movie -- .m1a -- audio/x-mpeg

Image

A BMP file is a Windows bitmap file. TIFF was designed to be a universal bitmapped image format and is also used extensively in desktop publishing packages.

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