7 terms
AAC, or Advanced Audio Coding, is a lossy perceptual audio codec from the MPEG standards, widely used for streaming, video soundtracks and digital broadcast.
ALAC, the Apple Lossless Audio Codec, compresses digital audio to roughly half its size while restoring every original sample bit for bit on playback.
FLAC is an open lossless audio codec that shrinks PCM audio to roughly half its size while decoding to a bit-identical copy of the original.
MP3 is the MPEG-1 Audio Layer III lossy codec that shrinks audio files by removing sounds listeners are unlikely to hear, using a psychoacoustic model.
Ogg Vorbis is an open, royalty-free lossy audio format that pairs the Vorbis codec with the Ogg container, widely used in games and streaming.
Opus is an open, royalty-free lossy audio codec that handles both speech and music at low latency, from 6 to 510 kbit/s, standardized as RFC 6716.
WAV is a RIFF-based audio file format that usually stores uncompressed PCM samples, making it a standard for recording, editing and exchange in audio.