File Menu

The File menu lets you work with files or documents as a whole.

Sound Studio supports the following file formats:

NameFile ExtensionsNotes
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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