Ext	R/W	Type

AIFC	R	Compressed Audio Interchange File Format.
AIFF	R+W	Audio Interchange File Format.
ALAW	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.711 A-law format audio.
AU 	RW	Sun/NeXT/DEC Audio file.
AVI	R	MS Audio Video Interleave file.
AVR	R	Audio Visual Research sound file.
CDA	R	Audio CD track.
CDR	R	Raw Audio-CD data.
DIG	R	Digilink format.
DIG	R	Sound Designer I audio file.
DSS	R	Olympus DSS file. %
DWD	R+W	DiamondWare Digitized file.
ESPS	R	ESPS audio files.
F32	R+W	Raw 32-bit IEEE floating point values.
F64	R+W	Raw 64-bit IEEE floating point values.
G721	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.721 4-bit ADPCM format data.
G723	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.723 3 or 5-bit ADPCM format data.
G726	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.726 2, 3, 4 or 5-bit ADPCM format data.
GSM	R+W	Raw GSM 6.10 audio stream.
GSM	R+W	Raw 'byte aligned' GSM 6.10 audio stream.
GSM	R+W	US Robotics voice modems GSM w.o. header / VoiceGuide / RapidComm.
GSM	R+W	US Robotics voice modems GSM w. header / QuickLink.
IFF	R+W	Interchange file format.
INRS	R	INRS-Telecommunications audio.
MAT	R+W	Matlab variables binary file.
MOV	R	Apple QuickTime audio.
MP1	R	MPEG audio stream, layer I.
MP2	R	MPEG audio stream, layer II.
MP3	R+W *	MPEG audio stream, layer III. *
MPA	R	MPEG audio stream, layer I, II or III.
MPEG	R	MPEG 1 system stream.
MPG	R	MPEG 1 system stream.
NIST	R	NIST Sphere audio.
NVF	R	Creative Nomand Voice file.
OGG	R+W	Vorbis Ogg file.
PAF	R+W	Ensoniq PARIS audio file.
PSION	R	PSION a-law audio.
RA	W #	RealAudio audio file. #
RAW	R+W	Raw signed PCM data.
RIF	R+W	Rapidcom Voice/Quicklink Rockwell ADPCM files
SAM	R	Signed 8-bit Sample data.
SB 	R+W	Raw Signed Byte (8-bit) data.
SD 	R+W	Sound Designer I audio.
SD2	R+W	Sound Designer II flattened file.
SD2	R+W	Sound Designer II data fork.
SDW	R+W	Raw Signed DWord (32-bit) data.
SF 	R	IRCAM SoundFile format.
SFR	R	Sonic Foundry Sample Resource.
SMP	R	Samplevision format.
SND	R	Raw unsigned PCM data.
SNDR	R	Sounder sound file.
SNDT	R	Sndtool sound file.
SPD	R	Speach Data file.
SPPACK	R+W	SPPack sound sample.
SVX	R	Interchange file format, 8SVX/16SV.
SW 	R+W	Raw Signed Word (16-bit) data.
TXT	R+W	Ascii Text formatted audio data.
TXT	W	Ascii Text parameter description.
UB 	R+W	Raw Unsigned Byte (8-bit) data.
UDW	R+W	Raw Unsigned DWord (32-bit) data.
ULAW	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.711 mu-law format data.
UW 	R+W	Raw Unsigned Word (16-bit) data.
V8 	R	Covox 8-bit audio.
VAP	R+W	Annotated speech file.
VOC	R+W	Creative Labs sound file (older format).
VOC	R+W	Creative Labs sound file (newer format).
VOX	R+W	Dialogic adpcm.
WAV	R+W	Ms Windows PCM wave.
WAV	R+W	'Extensible format' Microsoft Waveform file.
WMA	R+W =	Windows Media Audio (req. wmaudsdk.dll). =

* MPEG encoding requires a free 3rd party DLL (Lame_enc.dll or BladeEnc.dll).
= WMA encoding and decoding requires free external DLL (wmaudsdk.dll).
# RA encoding requires free external DLLs from RealNetworks.
% DSS reading requires that the Olympus DSS Player v3.x is installed.