FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

UNDERSTANDING COMPUTER FILES

FILE EXTENSIONS AND FILE TYPES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
.wav, .aiff, .wma, .au, .mp3, .aac are all examples of Audio file formats?
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Uncompressed audio formats like WAV and AIFF provide gorgeous sound quality, but at the cost of high file size.

Detailed explanation-2: -Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced “wave") is an audio file format standard, developed by IBM and Microsoft, for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows systems for uncompressed audio.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are three major groups of audio file formats: Uncompressed audio formats, such as WAV, AIFF, AU or raw header-less PCM; Formats with lossless compression, such as FLAC, Monkey’s Audio (filename extension . ape ), WavPack (filename extension .

Detailed explanation-4: -Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The format was developed by Apple Inc.

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