Audio Formats

Information about computer audio formats and sound cards.

Loseless audio compression supporting IEEE Float audio data.

Home of MYMPlay. Available for MSX, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.

Book by Ken C. Pohlmann.

NSF plugin for Winamp that supports many on-cart sound producing devices in Famicom carts.

Non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting multimedia by developing free and open protocols and software, including the Ogg container format.

Membership-driven resource for TTA programmers and enthusiasts. Includes software, source codes and documentation available for download.

Extended Module Player for Win95.

DirectShow filter suite with MPEG-4 video and multichannel AAC audio encoder based on FAAC as well as decoder, MP4 file format muxer and parser.

The GTK+2 port of XMMS with modern GUI features.

A transcoding application for Linux with a modular structure supporting many input and output formats.

WMP needs external DirectShow filters for AAC/MP4 support like 3ivx, mpegable, CoreAAC or LSX.

Commercial converter using FAAC and FAAD2 for AAC/MP4 support.

Open source version of RealProducer with free HE AAC encoder SDK from Coding Technologies.

A federal judge made a legal error in ordering Napster to ban the trade of copyrighted music on its service, lawyers for the popular file-swapping service told an appeals court today. [News.com]

An easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats. It can rename files, replace characters, import/export tag information, create playlists...

Macintosh MP3 encoder based on LAME source code.

Simple freeware application for playing MP3 audio.

Converts audio CDs into WMA 8, OGG or MP3 formats. Features ID3 tag v2 support, jitter correction, and CDDB lookups. Site contains screenshots, support pages, and a downloadable trial version.

New streaming solution for webmasters.

Open-source web-based media streamer and jukebox. Supports MP3, OGG, AAC and other streamable audio and video formats. Runs on Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac.