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