| A | B |
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| CDA | The format of audio on a standard RedBook CD; can be extracted to your hard drive by a ripper into WAV (Windows) or AIFF (Macintosh) files. |
| MIDI | Standard specifications that enable electronic instruments such as the synthesizer, sampler, sequencer, and drum. |
| MPEG | The standard for compression and storage of motion video, for example, videos available though the World Wide Web. |
| RM | Typically stores a movie clip; generally supported by many different platforms. |
| WMV | A generic name for the set of proprietary streaming video technologies developed by Microsoft. |
| AU | A sound file format on Sun systems. |
| WAG | File format was developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM as the standard format for sound on PCs. |
| AVI | Video quality can be very good at smaller resolutions, but files tend to be rather large. |
| MP3 | Layer-3. Compression scheme used to transfer audio files via the Internet and store in portable players and digital audio servers. |
| MOV | A movie or video file in Apple's QuickTime format. |
| WMA | An audio compression format similar to MP3, but with digital rights management built-in by Microsoft. |
