Raw audio format

{{Short description|File format for uncompressed audio}} {{See also|Uncompressed audio}} {{More references|date=July 2013}}

A '''raw audio file''' is any file containing un-containerized and uncompressed audio. The data is stored as raw pulse-code modulation (PCM) values without any metadata header information (such as sampling rate, bit depth, endian, or number of channels).<ref name=":0">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160525083851/http://www.fmtz.com/misc/raw-audio-file-formats Raw Audio File Formats Information] (at the Wayback Machine)</ref>

==Extensions== Raw files can have a wide range of file extensions, common ones being '''.raw''', '''.pcm''', or '''.sam'''.<ref name=":0" /> They can also have no extension.

==Playing== As there is no header, compatible audio players require information from the user that would normally be stored in a header, such as the encoding, sample rate, number of bits used per sample, and the number of channels.

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Category:Digital audio Category:Computer file formats