SND (SouND) file is a
file extension that indicates that the file is a
digital
Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits.
Technology and computing Hardware
*Digital electronics, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals
**Digital camera, which captures and stores digital i ...
sound file.
File contents
Most commonly a file contains a
NeXT sound file. This is essentially the same as the
au file format
The Au file format is a simple audio file format introduced by Sun Microsystems. The format was common on NeXT systems and on early Web pages. Originally it was headerless, being simply 8-bit mu-law, μ-law-encoded data at an 8000 Hz sample ...
used by
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...
.
The first four bytes of a file contain the hex number 0x2e736e64 which displays as "" when interpreted as ASCII text.
Another file format is attributed to
Apple Inc. Data stored in such files are commands for the
Macintosh Sound Manager The Sound Manager is a part of the classic Apple Macintosh operating system, in Classic Mac OS. It is used to control the production and manipulation of sounds on Macintosh computers. The Sound Manager is also used by other parts of the Macintosh sy ...
including '
wavetable'
sample-based instruments and sound samples. It can serve as a pure audio file format if only one command and one sound sample is stored in it. In this format, the first two bytes specify a 16-bit integer representing the numbers 1 or 2.
Programs supporting audio files with the extension generally assume, and check, that it is NeXT/SUN (AU) format.
Electronic music instrument manufacturer
Akai had an audio file format with the extension . The first byte contains the number 1 and the second the number 4.
The manufacturer of the HOM-BOT Robot Vacuum Cleaner
LG Group and the
VTech V.Flash use audio files with the extension . The sounds are encoded in
PCM
Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals. It is the standard form of digital audio in computers, compact discs, digital telephony and other digital audio applications. In a PCM stream, the amp ...
(single channel, 16 kHz, 16 bits signed).
The
Unity Game Engine uses a compressed format called .snd for sound packages.
See also
*
Au file format
The Au file format is a simple audio file format introduced by Sun Microsystems. The format was common on NeXT systems and on early Web pages. Originally it was headerless, being simply 8-bit mu-law, μ-law-encoded data at an 8000 Hz sample ...
References
External links
Documentationon developer.apple.com
on developer.apple.com
Computer file formats
Digital audio
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