File Formats

For reference, here are the available audio-formats for each platform:

Format, file extension Windows macOS / OS X Linux
Advanced Audio Coding (.aac) Yes Yes
Audio Interchange (.aif, .aiff, .aifc) Yes Yes Yes
NeXT/Sun Audio (.au) Yes Yes
Core Audio Format (.caf) Yes
Free Lossless Audio Codec (.fla, .flac) Yes Yes Yes
OGG Vorbis (.ogg) Yes Yes Yes
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 (.mp2) Yes Yes Yes
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (.mp3) Yes Yes Yes
MPEG-4 Part 14 (.mp4, .mp4a, .m4a) Yes Yes
Apple SouND (.snd) Yes Yes
Waveform Audio File (.wav) Yes Yes Yes
Windows Media Audio (.wma) Yes

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