audio formats, uncompressed .wav 8 bit unsigned/ 16 bit byte swap .aiff, .qt (quicktime) 8, 16, 24, 32 bit linear .aifc (old .aiff) 8, 16, 24, 32 bit linear; 4 bit ADPCM .au (sun), .snd (next) 8, 16, 24, 32 bit linear, 8 bit µlaw, 32 bit floating point .sd2 (digidesign) 8, 16 bit linear (1, 2, 4 channels; region info in header) .bicsf (IRCAM) 8, 16 bit linear; 32 bit floating point about the formats: linear standard method of encoding bitstream of data byte swap Microsoft proprietary format encodes sound in byte pairs (not a linear stream) floating point Used in spectrographic analysis -- floating point is not a playable sound format (must be converted to linear)