Supported File Formats

WaveLab Cast can open and save audio files in a number of file formats.

AAC/MPEG-4 (.m4a, mp4)

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a codec that allows lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio.

Important

The OEM version of WaveLab Cast does not support AAC.

AIFF (.aif, .aiff, .snd)

Audio Interchange File Format, a standard defined by Apple Computers Inc. The following bit depths are supported: 8 bit, 16 bit, 20 bit, and 24 bit.

FLAC (.flac)

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed.

MPEG-1 Layer 2 (.mp2, .mpa, .mpg, .mus)

MP2 (sometimes referred to as “Musicam files”) is a common file format in the broadcast industry.

MPEG-1 Layer 3 (.mp3)

The most common audio compression format. The major advantage of MPEG compression is that the file size is significantly reduced, while there is little degradation of sound quality.

Note

When you open an MPEG compressed file in WaveLab Cast, the file is converted to a temporary wave file. On saving, the temporary wave file is converted back to MP3.

Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)

Ogg Vorbis is a compressed file format that is open, patent-free, and which creates very small audio files maintaining comparatively high audio quality.

Wave (.wav)

The following bit depths are supported: 8 bit, 16 bit, 20 bit, 24 bit, 32 bit, 32 bit float, and 64 bit float.

Wave 64 (.w64)

This file format is very similar to the Wave format but with one important difference: it allows you to record and/or edit files of virtually any length. Standard Wave files are limited to 2 GB (stereo files) in WaveLab Cast.

Note

Wave 64 does not support metadata. If you need large files and metadata, use Wave files and activate the RF64 option.

Windows Media Audio (.wma, .asf)

Microsoft’s own compressed format. WaveLab Cast lets you import/export audio in this format (Windows only). To import/export audio in WMA surround format, Windows Media Player 9 or later must be installed on your system.

Original Sound Quality (.osq, read-only)

This is the proprietary lossless compressed audio format of WaveLab.