CDThe following file formats, are supported by Awave Audio for reading (R) and / or writing (W):
| Ext. | R/W | Format description |
| 3G2 | R+W | 3GPP 'project 2' file format. |
| 3GP | R+W | 3GPP file format. |
| AAC | R+W | MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADTS container format). |
| AAC | R | MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADIF container format). |
| AAC | R | MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format ('raw' format). |
| AC3 | R+W | AC3 compressed audio stream. |
| AIFC | R | Compressed Audio Interchange File Format. |
| AIF | R+W | Audio Interchange File Format. |
| AIFF | R+W | Audio Interchange File Format. |
| ALAW | R+W | G.711 A-law european telephony format. |
| ALW | R+W | G.711 A-law european telephony format. |
| AMR | R+W | MIME 'AMR file storage' format. |
| APE | R+W | Monkey Audio lossless compression. |
| ASF | R | ActiveMovie streaming format. |
| ATAK?? | R+W | Soundscape Audio-Take files. |
| AU | R+W | Sun/NeXT/DEC audio files. |
| AVI | R | Microsoft Audio Video Interleave files. |
| AVR | R | Audio Visual Research sound file. |
| CAF | R+W | Apple CoreAudio file format. |
| CAFF | R+W | Apple CoreAudio file format. |
| CDA | R | Audio CD tracks. CD |
| CDR | R | Audio CD compatible raw data. |
| COD | R+W | 3GPP 'AMR interface format 2'. |
| CPT | R+W | DTS compact compressed audio stream. |
| DAT12 | R+W | DAT LP 12-bit nonlinear (IEC 61119, RFC 3190). |
| DIG | R | Digilink format. |
| DIG | R | Sound Designer I files. |
| DSS | R | Olympus DSS files (in 32-bit app only). |
| DTS | R+W | DTS padded compressed audio stream. |
| DWD | R+W | DiamondWare digitized files. |
| ESPS | R | ESPS audio files. |
| F32 | R+W | Floating point raw 32-bit IEEE data. |
| F64 | R+W | Floating point raw 64-bit IEEE data. |
| FLAC | R+W | Free lossless audio codec files. |
| G721 | R+W | ITU G.721 4-bit (32 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G721-4 | R+W | ITU G.721 4-bit (32 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G722 | R+W | ITU G.722 8-bit (64 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G722-6 | R+W | ITU G.722 6-bit (48 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G722-7 | R+W | ITU G.722 7-bit (56 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G722-8 | R+W | ITU G.722 8-bit (64 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G723 | R+W | ITU G.723 3-bit (24 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G723-3 | R+W | ITU G.723 3-bit (24 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G723-5 | R+W | ITU G.723 5-bit (40 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G726 | R+W | ITU G.726 2-bit (16 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G726-2 | R+W | ITU G.726 2-bit (16 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G726-3 | R+W | ITU G.726 3-bit (24 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G726-4 | R+W | ITU G.726 4-bit (32 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G726-5 | R+W | ITU G.726 5-bit (40 kbps) ADPCM format data. |
| G728 | R+W | ITU G.728 LD-CELP data. |
| GSM | R+W | Raw GSM 06.10 audio streasm. |
| GSM | R+W | Raw 'byte aligned' GSM 06.10 audio streams. |
| GSM | R+W | US Robotics voice modems GSM w.o. header (VoiceGuide, RapidComm). |
| GSM | R+W | US Robotics voice modems GSM w. header (QuickLink). |
| IFF | R+W | Interchange file format. |
| INRS | R | INRS-Telecommunications audio files. |
| L8 | R+W | Linear 8-bit audio (RFC 1890). |
| L12 | R+W | Linear 12-bit signed audio (RFC 3190). |
| L16 | R+W | Linear 16-bit audio (RFC 1890). |
| L20 | R+W | Linear 20-bit signed audio (RFC 3190). |
| L24 | R+W | Linear 24-bit audio (RFC 3190). |
| M4A | R+W | iTunes MPEG-4 audio format. |
| M4R | R+W | iPhone ring-tone. |
| MAT | R+W | Matlab variables binary files. |
| MKA | R | Matroska audio file. |
| MKV | R | Matroska video file. |
| MOV | R+W | Apple QuickTime movie format. |
| MP1 | R | MPEG audio streams, layer I. |
| MP2 | R+W | MPEG audio streams, layer II. |
| MP3 | R+W | MPEG audio streams, layer III. |
| MP4 | R+W | MPEG-4 base media file format. |
| MPA | R | MPEG audio streams, layer I, II, 'II½' or III. |
| MPEG | R | MPEG system streams, audio+video. |
| MPG | R | MPEG system streams, audio+video. |
| MTS | R | Media Touch Systems MPEG audio layer II. |
| MUS | R | Musifile MPEG Layer II audio stream. |
| NIST | R+W | NIST Sphere files. |
| NVF | R+W | Creative Labs Nomad voice files. |
| OGG | R+W | Ogg Vorbis streams. |
| OPUS | R+W | Opus streams. |
| PAF | R+W | Ensoniq PARIS audio files. |
| PCMA | R+W | A-law format (RFC 1890). |
| PCMU | R+W | mu-law format (RFC 1890). |
| PSION | R | PSION a-law files. |
| RAW | R | Signed 8-bit PCM data. |
| RIF | R+W | Rockwell ADPCM format (Hotfax/Quicklink). |
| ROCKWELL-2 | R+W | Rockwell 2-bit ADPCM data. |
| ROCKWELL-3 | R+W | Rockwell 3-bit ADPCM data. |
| ROCKWELL-4 | R+W | Rockwell 4-bit ADPCM data. |
| SAM | R | Signed 8-bit PCM files. |
| SB | R+W | Signed byte (8-bit) data. |
| SD | R+W | Sound Designer I files. |
| SD2 | R+W | Sound Designer II flattened files. |
| SD2 | R+W | Sound Designer II data forks. |
| SDS | R+W | MIDI SDS sysex dump. |
| SDS | R | SmartSound SDS file. |
| SDW | R+W | Signed dword (32-bit) data. |
| SDX | R | SDX compacted MIDI SDS. |
| SF | R+W | IRCAM / MTU SoundFile format. |
| SFR | R | Sonic Foundry sample resource files. |
| SHN | R+W | Shorten lossless compression. |
| SMP | R | Samplevision files. |
| SND | R+W | Unsigned 8-bit PCM data (W as .UB). |
| SNDR | R | Sounder sound files. |
| SNDT | R | SndTools sound files. |
| SPD | R | Speech data files. |
| SPPACK | R+W | SPPack sound sample. |
| SVX | R | Interchange file format. |
| SW | R+W | Signed word (16-bit) data. |
| TXT | R+W | Ascii text formatted audio data. |
| U255LAW | R+W | Exponential 8-bit format. |
| UB | R+W | Unsigned byte (8-bit) data. |
| UDW | R+W | Unsigned dword (32-bit) data. |
| ULAW | R+W | G.711 mu-law US telephony format. |
| ULW | R+W | G.711 mu-law US telephony format. |
| UW | R+W | Unsigned word (16-bit) data. |
| V8 | R | Covox 8-bit audio. |
| VAG | R+W | Sony Playstation / PS2 compressed sound files. |
| VAP | R+W | Annotated speech files. |
| VM1 | R | Panasonic voice file. |
| VOC | R+W | Creative Labs 'newer style' sound files. |
| VOC | R+W | Creative Labs 'older style' sound files. |
| VOX | R+W | Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files. |
| VOX-6K | R+W | Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files (6000 Hz). |
| VOX-8K | R+W | Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files (8000 Hz). |
| W64 | R+W | Sonic Foundry Wave-64 format. |
| WAV | R+W | Microsoft wave format. |
| WAV | R+W | Microsoft 'extensible' wave format. |
| WAV | R+W | Broadcast wave format (EBU BWF). |
| WAV | R+W | Multichannel Broadcast wave format (EBU RF64). |
| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 4. |
| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 CBR. |
| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 ABR. |
| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 VBR. |
| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 Voice. |
| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless. |
| WMA | R+W | Windows Media Audio 9 Pro CBR/ABR/VBR. |
| WMV | R | Windows Media Video file. |
| WV | R+W | WavPack lossless compression. |
| YADPCM | R+W | Raw Yamaha 4-bit ADPCM format data. |
Legend of symbols used:
| R | Indicates support for Reading a format. |
| W | Indicates support for Writing a format. |
| Indicates that the format can be auto-detected - even with the wrong extension. |