Computer Audio Formats

• Portable Players@
• Software@

• MIDI@
• MOD
• MP3
• MPEG-4

• Computers: Data Formats 

• Compression and Speed of Lossless Audio Formats  - Presents graphs that show the compressed file size as a percentage of the uncompressed new file size. Also includes links and information on the compression software tested.
• FLAC  - Free Lossless Audio Codec - an audio format designed to enable audio compression without or with minimal quality loss.
• Speex  - Open source, patent-free audio compression format particularly designed for speech.
• WavPack  - Open audio compression format intended to provide lossless, high quality lossy, and hybrid compression mode. Includes multiplatform support and dynamic noise shaping.