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