Exporting audio

The File > Export > Audio command exports your project as a new file or files that you can burn to a CD, or distribute via the Web or email. You can also export surround-encoded files (see Exporting surround mixes). The following export formats are supported:

Table 78. Audio export formats 

Format	Definition
Wave	The standard digital audio format used under Windows for burning CDs, with a file extension of .wav. This format uses the Cakewalk wave exporter.
Broadcast Wave	Broadcast Wave files are wave files that contain a SMPTE time stamp and additional information. For details, see Broadcast Wave files.
Windows Media Advanced Streaming Format (includes Windows Media Pro)	Compressed digital audio for streaming over the internet, with the file extension .wma.
MP3	Highly compressed digital audio designed for quick downloads via the internet, with the file extension .mp3.
DSD	DSD (Direct Stream Digital) is a high resolution digital format, and is primarily used for Super Audio CDs (SACD) and as a master archive format. Some DSD players only read the DFF format. DSF is a stereo-only simplified form of DFF, and can contain metadata. The file extensions are .dsf and .dff.
AIFF	Audio Interchange File Format, co-developed by Apple Inc., is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems. The file extension is .aif.
AU	Au is the standard audio file format used by NeXT/Sun, Unix and Java. The audio in au files can be 8-bit or 16-bit PCM or compressed with the µLaw, alaw or G729 codecs. The file extension is .au.
CAF	Core Audio Format is a new 64-bit audio format supported natively in Mac OS X, and is also used by QuickTime 7. Audio in Core Audio Format files can be uncompressed PCM or compressed (such as AAC). The file extension is .caf.
FLAC	FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, which is somewhat similar to MP3, but lossless. Audio in a FLAC file is compressed without any loss in quality. The file extension is .flac.
OGG	The Ogg Vorbis Audio format is a increasingly popular royalty-free format for compressed audio files. The file extension is .oga.
RAW	Rarely used, a RAW file can contain audio in any codec but is usually used with PCM audio data.
RF64	The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) developed the RF64 format as an extension of Broadcast Wave and an alternative to Sony Wave64 for large files sizes (>4GB). The file extension is .rf64.
SD2	Sound Designer II is the native format of DigiDesign’s Sound Designer pro audio software and is also used natively by Macromedia DECK II and many applications. SD2 files be mono or interleaved stereo and the file extension is .sd2.
W64	The Sony Wave64 file format is similar to the RIFF format, but is a true 64-bit file format designed to overcome the size limitations of the RIFF format.
WAV	The standard digital audio format used under Windows for burning CDs, with a file extension of .wav. This format uses the Libsndfile wave exporter.
WAVEX	The Wave Format Extensible format, with the file extension .wav.
OMF (File > Export > OMF)	The Open Media Format, created by AVID Technology, is designed to port a project to other applications or platforms. OMF files preserve tracks, clip positions, slip edits and some other project attributes depending on which application is writing or reading the OMF file.
YouTube Publish	You can publish audio and video directly to YouTube. For details, see “Uploading your songs to YouTube” on page 349.

If your audio hardware is configured for stereo playback, Wave files are created in stereo; if your audio hardware is configured for monophonic playback, the Wave file is created in mono.

You can also export audio via the Control Bar’s Export module. For details, see Export module.

 

See:

Exporting to Wave format

Exporting to Windows Media format

Exporting to MP3

Exporting tracks

Exporting clips

Batch exporting audio files using task queues

Using export filename tags and presets

Exporting

 

See also:

BandLab library import/export