Editing List of file formats (section)

=== [[Audio compression (data)#Difficulties in lossless compression of audio data|Lossless]] audio ===

==== Uncompressed ====
* [[8SVX]] – Commodore-Amiga 8-bit sound (usually in an [[Interchange File Format|IFF]] container)
* [[8SVX|16SVX]] – Commodore-Amiga 16-bit sound (usually in an [[Interchange File Format|IFF]] container)
* [[Audio Interchange File Format|AIFF]], AIF, AIFC – Audio Interchange File Format
* [[Au file format|AU]] – Simple [[audio file format]] introduced by [[Sun Microsystems]]
* AUP3 – [[Audacity (audio editor)|Audacity]]'s file for when you save a song
* [[Broadcast Wave Format|BWF]] – Broadcast Wave Format, an extension of WAVE
* [[Red Book (audio CD standard)|CDDA]] – Compact Disc Digital Audio
* [[Direct Stream Digital|DSF, DFF]] – [[Direct Stream Digital]] audio file, also used in [[Super Audio CD]]
* [[Raw audio format|RAW]] – Raw samples without any header or sync
* [[WAV]] – Microsoft Wave
* CWAV – file read by the Nintendo 3DS for Home-screen sound effects
* QAU, QUEYEAUDIO - Queye Audio file, adapted from WAVE with specific metadata, generally for artists to submit music to their labels.
* QAU0 - Proprietary version of the Queye Audio file, without metadata.

==== Compressed ====
* RA, RM – [[RealAudio]] format
* [[FLAC]] – [[Libre software|Free]] lossless codec of the [[Ogg]] project
* LA – [[Lossless audio]]
* PAC – [[Lossless Predictive Audio Compression|LPAC]]
* APE – [[Monkey's Audio]]
* OFR, OFS, OFF – [[OptimFROG]]
* RKA – RKAU
* SHN – [[Shorten (file format)|Shorten]]
* TAK – Tom's Lossless Audio Kompressor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=TAK|title=TAK|work=hydrogenaud.io}}</ref>
* THD – [[Dolby TrueHD]]
* TTA – Free lossless audio codec (True Audio)
* WV – [[WavPack]]
* WMA – [[Windows Media Audio]] 9 Lossless
* BCWAV – Nintendo 3DS Home-screen BGM file
* BRSTM – Binary Revolution Stream<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fileextensions/f/brstmfile.htm|title=BRSTM File (What It Is & How To Open One)|author=Tim Fisher|work=About.com Tech|access-date=20 March 2012|archive-date=5 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505003508/http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fileextensions/f/brstmfile.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* DTS, DTSHD, DTSMA – [[DTS (sound system)]]
* AST – [[Nintendo]] Audio Stream
* AW – [[Nintendo]] Audio Sample used in first-party games
* PSF – [[Portable Sound Format]], PlayStation variant (originally PlayStation Sound Format)