AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) - The supported
formats include MPEG2 and MPEG4, as well as HE-AAC / AAC+. The
supported sample rates are 8 KBps, 11.025 KBps, 12 KBps, 16 KBps,
22.05 KBps, 32 KBps, 44.1 KBps and 48 KBps. The supported channels are
all configurations of mono and stereo (Note: Depending
on the BlackBerry Device Software version, AAC+ may not support
parametric stereo ).
ADPCM2 - This is a proprietary sampled audio
format.
AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) - The supported AMR-NB
rates are 4.75 KBps, 5.15 KBps, 5.9 KBps, 6.7 KBps, 7.4 KBps, 7.95
KBps, 10.2 KBps, and 12.2 KBps; and the input must conform to RFC3267 Section
5 on the Internet FAQ Archive web site.
AU - This is a simple audio file format and associated
with the µ-law logarithmic encoding.
GSM® (Global System for Mobile Communications®) - The
supported sample rates range from 5.6 KBps to 13.2 KBps with a sampling
rate of 8 kHz.
MIDI - Partial support of MIDI on earlier BlackBerry
smartphone models refers to a buzzer capable of buzzing at various
frequencies and volumes. All other BlackBerry smartphone models
support polyphonic MIDI22.
MIDP-TS (Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0 Tone
Sequence) - Provides mobile devices with the capability to
create simple monophonic tone sequences based on MIDP 2.0.
MP3 - The supported format is MPEG-1 Layer 3;
the supported sample rates are 32KHz, 44.1KHz, and 48KHz; and the
supported channels are 1 (mono) and 2 (stereo).
WAV - The supported encodings include PCM, uLaw,
and aLaw. The supported sampling rates are 8 kHz, 16 kHz, 22.05
kHz, 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, and 48 kHz with 8-bit and 16-bit depths in
mono or stereo.
Windows Media Audio (WMA) - WMA 9 standard profile
decoder and WMA 10 professional profile decoder are supported by
BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry Device Software 2.2.1
or later2. The WMA 9 standard profile
decoder provides six channels at 128 KBps, starting at 96 kHz/24-bit.
The WMA 10 professional profile decoder provides 8 channels decoding
at 128 KBps.
1 Supports MP4
2 The supported MP3 formats for
BlackBerry smartphones are MPEG Part 1 and Part 2 audio layer 3;
the supported sample rates are 16kHz, 22.050kHz, 24kHz, 32kHz, 44.1kHz,
and 48kHz. For additional information, see KB05482.