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What are the different audio formats available for download?
What are the different audio formats available for download?
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Written by Maxime A
Updated over 2 months ago

Qobuz offers a wide range of qualities and formats for downloading your paid downloads, depending on the quality you choose

  • 24-Bit up to 192 kHz Quality: WAV, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC

  • 24-Bit up to 96 kHz Quality: WAV, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC

  • 16-Bit/44.1 kHz Lossless Quality: WAV, WMA, AIFF, ALAC, FLAC

  • 320kbps/128kbps Lossy Quality: MP3, WMA, AAC

But also :

DSD: Direct Stream Digital

Characteristics: The digitisation of sound is performed using Delta Sigma technology. Each sample is encoded on 1 bit. The sampling frequency is n x 64 times the sampling frequency of CD quality.

Available quality: 1Bit/2.8 MHz, 1Bit/5.6 MHz, 1Bit/11.2 MHz, 1Bit/22.5 MHz. Qobuz offer names: DSD64, DSD128, DSD256, DSD512.

DXD: Digital eXtreme Definition - 24 Bits/352.8 kHz

Characteristics: The digitisation of sound is performed using PCM technology. Each sample is encoded on 24 or 32 bits. The sampling frequency is 8 times higher than the sampling frequency of CD quality (352.8 kHz).

Available quality: 24 Bits/352.8 kHz.

You can purchase these formats from the download store, as well as in our desktop applications and web player.

All the files purchased on Qobuz are guaranteed without DRM.

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