AUDIO FORMATS

What is the MP3, WAFF and WAV format?

- MP3

If you are interested in having some fidelity in the audio, a decent sound

of your files you will want to avoid this format, why? Basically it is a file

that sacrifices the audio quality to minimize the size.

- WAFF

They are equal in common but better for anyone who wants to have a decent

audio format, are files of higher resolution than MP3. A WAFF file is encoded

by a medium called PCM. A medium that encodes the analog audio pieces

and converts them into digital.

- AIFF

It is very similar to WAV, it also uses PCM. This format appeared as an answer

from Apple before the Microsoft Wav. Currently AIFF and WAV are interchangeable

files. We will not see them in online transmission services.

- DSD

Sony and Philips started experimenting with very high quality audio codecs and

the DSD format was the result. They are the ones that have the best audio format

in the world. For example, a CD or the service of broadcasts of Spotify counts on

Bit Depth and Sample Rates (16 bit / 44.1 KH), however, the formats of audio DSD

(1 bit / 2.8224MHz). A DSD file samples a whopping 2,822,400 times per second

and every time it gets these samples it produces a bit of information, producing

çincredible detail. There is DSD 64 and DSD 128.

- MQA