Audio Files

The BAND file is primarily connected to the GarageBand which was created by Apple Inc. The BAND file is a complete music project file and contains MIDI tracks, audio tracks, Apple Loops, and software instruments. It is opened with GarageBand which has sounds such as the keyboard, guitar, drums, bass, sampler instruments, and many others. […]

The UNI file associated with the MikMod. The MikMod is a module player and a library that can also play MOD, S3M, and XM. The UNI file format is MikMod’s own structure and base file format. Although MikMod was a player for MS-DOS, it has been ported to platforms such as Unix, Macintosh, and Java, […]

The XI file extension an audio file format used by the video game Fasttracker. The XI file contains instrument samples, and it stores the wave samples that are used in the video game songs.

The Open Media Framework File, OMF file, is an audio file that is used to transport digital media from different software. It is used to import media elements, effect summary, and edit information. The OMF file can have and export many different audio tracks, and volume and pan information; however, there are some settings specific […]

The Windows Media Audio File. WMA file, is a proprietary lossy audio file saved in the Advanced Systems Format, ASF, which is a proprietary format developed by Microsoft and used in the Windows Media Player. It is both an audio format and codec and contains metadata such as the artist, album, and genre. The WMA […]

The 3rd Generation Audio File, 3GA file, is a compressed audio file that is commonly used on cell phones for transmitting and editing audio data. They are similar to the 3GP files, but the 3GA files can only store audio where 3GP files can store audio and video.

The Advanced Audio Coding File, AAC file, is a lossy compressed audio file that is similar to the MP3 file but has better performance at the same bit rate. The better performance is due to the AAC being based on a modified discrete cosine transform whereas MP3 is based on the modified discrete cosine transform […]

The Ogg file is a free multimedia container format that contains audio, video, text such as subtitles, and metadata. It compresses audio similar to an MP3 file but sounds better compared to an MP3 file of equal size, and the OGG file has the benefit of storing metadata which includes artist information. OGG files can […]

The MOD file was the first audio file that is organized by modules. The modules contain note patterns and sound samples of different instruments in the form of samples which are then arranged in patterns. The patterns dictate which sounds are played and if they are repeated. It can be said that it is one […]

The Audio Interchange File Format is a non-compressed and lossless audio file. Because it is non-compressed, it takes up more space than files such as MP3. However, because of its quality, AIFF files are used to burn audio CDs. There are compressed AIFF files, called AIFF-C or AIFC, and the quality is indistinguishable. The AIFF […]