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title: Supported File Formats
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The list of audio file formats that Ardour can understand is quite long.
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It is based on the functionality offered by <dfn>libsndfile</dfn>, an excellent and
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widely used software library by Australian programmer Erik de Castro Lopo.
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As libsndfile's capabilities expand, so will Ardour's abilities to import
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(and export) new formats. Ardour supports all common audio file formats,
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including WAV, AIFF, AIFC, CAF, W64 and BWF, with all typical sample formats
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(8-, 16-, 24-, 32-bit integer, floating point, and more).
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A full list of libsndfile's supported formats is available on the
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<a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/#Features">libsndfile website</a>.
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For MIDI import, Ardour will read any Standard MIDI Format (SMF) file.
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