A very good and very comprehensive list of audio file formats is prepared by Guido van Rossum. The list is posted regularly to
comp.dsp and alt.binaries.sounds.misc, amongst others. It includes information on sampling rates, hardware, compression
techniques, file format definitions, format conversion, standards, programming hints and lots more. It is also available by ftp from 

     WWW: ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/audio/index.html 
     Text: ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/audio/AudioFormats.part1,2 

A useful source of software (Sox, ulaw conversion, SoundKit etc) is: 

     http://peace.wit.com/sounds/SoundConversion/


Host:			ftp.cwi.nl
Directory:		/pub/audio
Owner:			Guido van Rossum <guido@cwi.nl>

This directory contains various documents and programs having to do
with sound.  Some were developed locally, some were just copied here
for easy reference.

Introducing some of the authors:

	Guido van Rossum <guido@cwi.nl>
	Jack Jansen <jack@cwi.nl>
	K. Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@cwi.nl>

Authors not at CWI:

	Carl Malamud <carl@malamud.com> [Now that's a cool address!]
	Lars Hamre <larsha@lise.unit.no>

Some older versions are retained in the directory, but not listed in
this INDEX.

SOX no longer lives here.  It has its own home page:

	http://www.spies.com/Sox/

*** Attention all WWW users: the file index.html in this directory is
a hypertext version of this file. ***

The files are:

AudioFormats.part1,	The Audio File Formats FAQ regularly posted to
AudioFormats.part2	the net (alt.binaries.sounds[.d], comp.dsp,
			news.answers).  By Guido.

AudioIFF1.3.hqx		A MacWrite document describing the
			AIFF audio file format.  By Apple.


BICSF-info		Info on the BICSF sound file system.

MOD-info		A textfile describing the MOD file format in
			even more detail than possible in the FAQ.
			By Lars Hamre.

NIST-SPHERE		A description of the NIST SPHERE file format
			standard, popular in the DARPA speech community.

RIFF-format		A textfile describing the RIFF (a.k.a. "WAV")
			audio file format.  By Microsoft.

adpcm.shar		Source for a particularly fast ADPCM
			implementation.  By Jack.

anp1.1.tar.gz		Some programs and guidelines to help you
			capture radio newscasts on SGI or Sun.
			Requires a fair amount of work to get running,
			not for the faint of heart. By Jack.

ccitt-adpcm.tar.gz	Source for Sun's free implementation of CCITT
			compression types G.711, G.721 and G.723.
			By Sun.

cdsend1.8.tar.gz	Source for a cd reading and broadcasting
			program for the SGI Indigo CD-ROM player which
			can optionally also play on the internal
			speakers.  By Sjoerd.
			This also contains a version of radio that is
			capable of receiving CD quality audio.

gsm-1.0.7.tar.gz	GSM 06.10 13 kbit/s RPE/LTP speech compression
			library by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann,
			Technische  Universitaet Berlin

radio2.0.4.tar.gz	Source for a set of programs to broadcast
			AM-quality audio over the ethernet.  By Guido.

tuner1.6.shar		Source for a "tuner" program to go with radio
			(see above).  Needs Motif.  By Jack.

(*.wav: Microsoft RIFF audio file; *.zip: MS-DOS "zip" archive;
*.tar.gz: gzipped tar file; *.shar: self-unpacking shell archive;
*.hqx: Macintosh BinHex 4.0; everything else: plain text.)

Note: a tool to listen to Internet Talk Radio (if you know an ftp site
carrying the files and have SGI Indigo hardware) can be found
in ../python/itr.sgi.tar.Z.

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