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Lossy compression, common for music streaming, supports metadata tags like ID3.

Uncompressed audio format, high quality, large file sizes.

Advanced Audio Coding, lossy, better sound quality than MP3 at the same bitrate.

Free Lossless Audio Codec, compressed without losing quality, supports metadata.

Audio Interchange File Format, similar to WAV, developed by Apple, supports metadata.

Ogg Vorbis, open-source, offers better compression than MP3s.

Apple Lossless Audio Codec, retains original sound data, similar to FLAC but proprietary to Apple.

Windows Media Audio, part of Windows Media Framework, comes in both lossy and lossless versions.

Direct Stream Digital, 1-bit audio stream, used in Super Audio CDs.

Musical Instrument Digital Interface, contains instructions for music creation, doesn't contain actual audio.

Designed for interactive real-time applications, can handle both speech and music efficiently.

Adaptive Multi-Rate, optimized for speech, used primarily in mobile telephony.

Pulse Code Modulation, uncompressed raw audio data, foundation for digital audio.

Audio Codec 3, used in Dolby Digital audio on DVDs, Blu-rays, and other digital video formats.