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The 'Music' category is merely a guideline on commercialized uses of a particular format, not a technical assessment of its capabilities. 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.
An audio format is a medium for sound recording and reproduction.The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content—in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format, but its wider use usually refers to the physical method used to store the data.
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.
Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM, generally only described as PCM) is the format for uncompressed audio in media files and it is also the standard for CD-DA; note that in computers, LPCM is usually stored in container formats such as WAV, AIFF, or AU, or as raw audio format, although not technically necessary.
KERN – Kern File Format sheet music file; LY – LilyPond sheet music file; MEI – Music Encoding Initiative file format that attempts to encode all musical notations; MIDI – MIDI file format that is a music sheet for instruments; MUS, MUSX – Finale sheet music file; MXL, XML – MusicXML standard sheet music exchange format
For audio waveform formats, see Category:Audio file formats. For file formats used for representing playlists, see Category:Playlist file formats. For computer software used to create and edit musical notation, see Category:Scorewriters.
As such, the user normally doesn't have a raw AAC file, but instead has a .m4a audio file, which is a MPEG-4 Part 14 container containing AAC-encoded audio. The container also contains metadata such as title and other tags, and perhaps an index for fast seeking. [2] A notable exception is MP3 files, which are raw audio coding without a ...
Keykit, a programming language and portable graphical environment for MIDI music composition; Kyma (sound design language) LilyPond, a computer program and file format for music engraving. Max/MSP, a proprietary, modular visual programming language aimed at sound synthesis for music; Mercury, a language for live-coding algorithmic music.