AudioFormats

uncompressed

• ​WAV Waveform audio format - Microspft, IBM
• ​AIFF Audio Interchange File Format - Mac

lossy compressed

• ​MP3

lossless compressed (meaning that the audio is compressed without any loss in quality)

• ​FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless
  • FLAC resources:
    • ​Etree.org
      • ​FLAC Page
      • ​FLAC Fingerprint
      • ​audiotester test Flac Files

• ​Monkey's Audio - lossless audio compressor
  • ​JMAC: Open Source Java Monkey's Audio Decoder/Encoder/JavaSound SPI

• ​SHORTEN - Simple lossless and near-lossless waveform compression
  • ​etree.org Shorten page

links to dicussions on Audio Formats

• ​Telephony Audio Formats - Voxeo page
• ​A comparison of Internet audio compression formats
• ​Audio File Formats