which audio file format supported by wider range of mobile devices?

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hi, between 16 bit pcm wav and mp3, which audio file format supported by wider range of mobile devices( from very low end to high end)?

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Almost anything can play WAV, MP3, or AAC(=M4A=MP4).

There are some car stereos that are more picky and they might play one format or another, but those are probably older car stereos. The “modern way” is Bluetooth so anything you can play on your phone can play through the car stereo via Bluetooth.

Metadata/tagging* (embedded artist/album/title, etc.) is not well standardized for WAV and almost any other format is better for metadata.

As you may know, MP3 & AAC are lossy compression so the audio is imperfect (although it can often sound perfect). A good MP3 or AAC file is about 1/5th the size of a “CD quality” WAV file.


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Tyvm. my audio files wont have any kind of metadata at all, so if i make those in 16bit pcm wav will it b supported by all mobile phones?

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I wouldn’t expect any problems. I just did a quick-search -

[u]Android[/u].

[u]iPhone[/u].

I assume there are apps that support more formats.