Free Game Friday: Audio File Formats

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This Free Game Friday offers information about popular audio file formats at a glance. Search these terms for more detailed information.

Popular audio formats can be categorized as lossy, lossless or uncompressed. Lossy compression discards data to save space, while lossless & uncompressed files retain quality.

Lossy: MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG VORBIS
These files are smaller which makes them easy to store & share. The audio data deleted during compression causes a loss of quality.

Lossless: FLAC, ALAC
These files don’t delete data during compression, but replace redundant data with instructions that allow your music player to rebuild the original file. This allows for a smaller file size while maintaining quality.

Uncompressed: WAV, AIFF
These raw audio files are large, but retain a higher quality sound.

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