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2. Comparison of audio coding formats - Wikipedia

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   For example, MP3 and AAC dominate the personal audio market in terms of market share, 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 ...

3. FLAC - Wikipedia

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   FLAC is specifically designed for efficient packing of audio data, unlike general-purpose lossless algorithms such as DEFLATE, which are used in ZIP and gzip. While ZIP may reduce the size of a CD-quality audio file by 10–20%, FLAC is able to reduce the size of audio data by 40–50% by taking advantage of the characteristics of audio.

4. Audio coding format - Wikipedia

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   An audio coding format [1] (or sometimes audio compression format) is a content representation format for storage or transmission of digital audio (such as in digital television, digital radio and in audio and video files). Examples of audio coding formats include MP3, AAC, Vorbis, FLAC, and Opus.

5. Audio file format - Wikipedia

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   Audio file icons of various formats. An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression.

6. MP3 - Wikipedia

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   An MP3 file is made up of MP3 frames, which consist of a header and a data block. ... Lossless formats include FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), Apple Lossless and ...

7. Timeline of audio formats - Wikipedia

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   TTA (file format) Digital. The True Audio Lossless Codec. 2000 FLAC (file format) Digital. Free Lossless Audio Codec (open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free) Ogg Vorbis (file format) Digital. Vorbis compressed audio format (open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free) DSDIFF (file format) Digital. DSD, optional DST compression APE ...

8. Comparison of digital music stores - Wikipedia

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   FLAC ALAC WAV AIFF AAC MP3 WMA Vorbis DRM Preview (seconds) Stream purchases 7digital: 81 [2] Yes [3] Web, Android 24-bit No No No 320 kbps 320 kbps No No No 30 Yes Amazon Music: 90 [4] Yes Web, Android [5] No No No No No 256 kbps No No No 30: Yes Bandcamp: 18.1: No Web 24-bit 24-bit 24-bit 24-bit Yes Yes No Yes No Full Yes Beatport: 9 [6] Yes ...

9. Gapless playback - Wikipedia

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   Winamp, supports gapless playback for MP3, M4A/AAC, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files (since version 5.3). Windows Media Player, has supported gapless ripping and playback of WMA since Windows Media 9. Available on all current Windows machines. XMPlay, supports gapless playback for all format files; Alternative or partial solutions: