What audio formats does the JDK support besides Suns .au format?
Ans : No other ones; the JDK 1.0.2 (and 1.1) supports only the .au format. The current releases of the JDK (1.0.2 and 1.1) support only the .au audio file format: • 8 bits per sample • 8000 samples per second (8000 Hz) • one channel (mono) • mu-law encoding of amplitude (nonlinear, quasi-logarithmic) This format represents sound with approximately telephone-voice quality. It is commonly used to compress the dynamic range of a 16-bit linear format into half as many bits. Sound files in other formats can be converted to the .au format with varying degrees of difficulty. The easiest is NeXT’s .snd format, which is practically identical to the .au format. If you have a NeXT .snd file, you can simply rename it from XXX.snd to XXX.au and it should work. The two formats differ slightly in their sampling rate8000 samples per second (.au) versus 8012 samples per second (.snd)but this 0.15 percent difference should be negligible for many uses. Sound files in other audio formats require more work
