| AAC (MP4 Audio) | AIFF (Apple/SGI) | AU (Sun/NeXT) | AVR (Audio Visual Research) | CAF (Apple Core Audio File) | FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) | HTK (HMM Tool Kit) | IFF (Amiga IFF/SVX8/SV16) | MAT4 (GNU Octave 2.0 / Matlab 4.2) | MAT5 (GNU Octave 2.1 / Matlab 5.0) | MPC (Akai MPC 2k) | MP3 (MPEG Audio) | OGG (OGG Container format) | PAF (Ensoniq PARIS) | PVF (Portable Voice Format) | RAW (header-less) | RF64 (RIFF 64) | SD2 (Sound Designer II) | SDS (Midi Sample Dump Standard) | SF (Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL) | VOC (Creative Labs) | W64 (SoundFoundry WAVE 64) | WAV (Microsoft) | WAV (NIST Sphere) | WAVEX (Microsoft) | WVE (Psion Series 3) | XI (FastTracker 2) | |
| Signed 8 bit PCM | R/W | R/W | R/W (M/S) | R/W | R/W | R/W (M) | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W (M) | R/W | |||||||||||||||
| Signed 16 bit PCM | R | R/W | R/W | R/W (M/S) | R/W | R/W | R/W (M) | R/W (M) | R/W | R/W | R/W (M/S) | R/W (M/S) | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W (M) | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | |||
| Signed 24 bit PCM | R | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W (M/S) | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W (M) | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | ||||||||||||
| Signed 32 bit PCM | R | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | |||||||||||||
| Unsigned 8 bit PCM | R/W | R/W (M/S) | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | ||||||||||||||||||
| 32 bit float | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | ||||||||||||||||
| 64 bit float | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | |||||||||||||||||
| U-Law | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | ||||||||||||||||
| A-Law | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W | R/W (M) | |||||||||||||||
| IMA ADPCM | R/W (M/S) | R/W (M/S) | R/W (M/S) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Microsoft ADPCM | R/W (M/S) | R/W (M/S) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GSM 6.10 | R/W (M) | R/W (M) | R/W (M) | R/W (M) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 32kbs G721 ADPCM | R/W (M) | R/W (M) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 24kbs G723 ADPCM | R/W (M) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 bit DWVW | R/W (M) | R/W (M) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 bit DWVW | R/W (M) | R/W (M) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 24 bit DWVW | R/W (M) | R/W (M) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| VOX ADPCM | R/W (M) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 bit DPCM | R/W (M) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 bit DPCM | R/W (M) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vorbis | R/W |
| Legend | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| I/O Support | Surround Support | ||
| R | Read | (M) | Mono only |
| W | Write | (S) | Stereo only |
| R/W | Read/Write | (M/S) | Mono/Stereo only |
| Unsupported | Surround OK | ||