RAW Audio format or just RAW Audio is a computer format for storing uncompressed audio in raw form. Comparable to WAV

WAV

Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...

 or AIFF

AIFF

Audio Interchange File Format is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices...

 in size, RAW Audio file does not include any header information (sampling rate

Sampling rate

The sampling rate, sample rate, or sampling frequency defines the number of samples per unit of time taken from a continuous signal to make a discrete signal. For time-domain signals, the unit for sampling rate is hertz , sometimes noted as Sa/s...

, bit depth

Bit depth

Bit depth may refer to:* For bit depth in graphics, see color depth* For bit depth in audio, see audio bit depth* For bit depth in drilling for petroleum, see drilling rig...

, endian, or number of channels). Data can be written in PCM, IEEE 754 or ASCII

ASCII

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...

.

Extensions

The most typical extension is .raw or .pcm. It can be also without 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.

External links

• Raw Audio File Formats Information