File Menu
The File menu lets you work with files or documents as a whole.
Sound Studio supports the following file formats:
Name | File Extensions | Notes |
AAC (m4a) | .m4a, .m4b, .mp4 | MPEG-4 audio file with AAC encoding. Compatible with iTunes. The preferred lossy encoding format for iTunes. |
ADTS AAC | .aac | Audio data transport stream with AAC data. |
AIFF Audio | .aif, .aiff | Audio Interchange File Format. Commonly used for uncompressed audio on Macs. Compatible with iTunes. |
AIFF-C Audio | .aif, .aifc | Audio Interchange File Format with Compression. Supports some data compression including IMA 4:1. |
Apple Lossless | .m4a | MPEG-4 audio file with Apple Lossless audio encoding. Compatible with iTunes. |
Core Audio Format | .caf | Preferred format for saving audio data in 32-bit floating-point format. |
NeXT/Sun Audio | .au | An older standard for audio files. |
MP3 Audio | .mp3, .mpg3, .mpg, .mpeg, .mp2 | MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio file. Compatible with iTunes. The ubiquitous file format, with lossy encoding, and preferred for sending audio over the Internet. Requires the "LAME" framework for saving. |
Ogg Vorbis | .ogg | Ogg Vorbis is a free standard for lossy encoding of audio data. |
QuickTime Movie | .mov | Sound Studio can only import the audio from QuickTime movies. |
Sound Designer II | .sd2, .L, .R | An older standard for audio files. Uses resource forks. |
System 7 Sound | Sound Studio can only import this "classic Mac OS" file format, which puts all the audio data in the resource fork. | |
Tab-delimited Text | .txt | Sound Studio can only export to text. This is an advanced option which generates very large files for use in scientific data analysis applications. |
Wave Audio | .wav | A file format often seen on Windows PCs. |
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