Supported File Formats

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

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 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 LE, 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.
WavPack (.wv/.wvc): This file format allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed, including 32 bit float audio files.
Windows Media Audio (.wma, .asf): Microsoft’s own compressed format. WaveLab LE 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.