Explaining Audio File Formats

Digital audio file formats tutorial, including sample rate, bit depth, codecs, containers, MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, BWF, DSD, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, AC-3, EC-3, AC-4, Ogg Vorbis, Opus and WMA. If you find this video useful, you may appreciate these other ExplainingComputers episodes: Explaining Digital Video: Formats, Codecs & Containers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4NXxY4maYc Explaining Image File Formats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WblPwVq9KnU Explaining File Compression Formats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPj_dILDK6I More videos on computing and related topics can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: http://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingTheFuture Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:53 Digital Audio (sample rate & bit depth) 03:16 Codecs & Containers 05:03 Non-compressed audio formats 07:44 Lossless compression formats 10:24 Lossy Compression formats 13:28 Wrap #AudioFormats #MP3 #WAV #AIFF #AAC #ExplainingComputers