AIFF (hi-res): Apple's alternative to WAV, with better metadata support. It is lossless and uncompressed (so big file sizes) but not hugely popular. DSD (hi-res): The single-bit format used for Super ...

As MP3 utilises lossy compression, the same audio stream would result in a smaller file size as an MP3 than it would if captured as a WAV file. Both formats generally capture sound at 44.1KHz per ...

If you begin to dip your toes into the busy, crowded and confusing world of audio file formats, you'll quickly find yourself swamped with various different types of format, codec, compression ...