Listing of Audio Codecs by popularity
Audio codecs 1 to 20
| MPEG 1 or 2 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) | 59.79 % |
| MPEG 1 Layer 2 | 13.34 % |
| ATSC/A-52 Dolby AC3 | 12.17 % |
| Microsoft PCM Format | 5.31 % |
| Windows Media Audio | 1.23 % |
| AAC HE | 1.20 % |
| Vorbis | 1.06 % |
| MPEG 1 or 2 Audio Layer 1 | 0.87 % |
| (Dolby(TM)) AC3 | 0.60 % |
| MPEG | 0.51 % |
| Microsoft ADPCM | 0.39 % |
| MPEG Audio 1 layer 1 | 0.33 % |
| Intel DVI ADPCM | 0.32 % |
| AAC Low Complexity | 0.30 % |
| Voxware MetaSound | 0.28 % |
| DTS audio | 0.23 % |
| Microsoft uLAW | 0.20 % |
| AAC Profile Audio | 0.20 % |
| Ogg Vorbis (mode 3+) | 0.19 % |
| MPEG Audio 1, 2, 2.5 | 0.18 % |
Audio codecs 21 to 40
| MPEG Audio 1 layer 3 (MP3) | 0.12 % |
| Dolby DTS | 0.10 % |
| AAC Low Complexity | 0.08 % |
| AAC Low Complexity | 0.07 % |
| QDesign Music v2 | 0.06 % |
| AAC | 0.05 % |
| Ogg Vorbis (mode 1+) | 0.05 % |
| Microsoft ALAW | 0.05 % |
| Microsoft GSM 6.10 | 0.05 % |
| MPEG 2 Layer 2 | 0.04 % |
| Real Audio Cook | 0.04 % |
| Real Time Protocol | 0.04 % |
| MPEG 2 Layer 1 | 0.04 % |
| MPEG 1 Layer 2 | 0.03 % |
| Intel Music Coder | 0.03 % |
| MPEG Audio 2 layer 3 | 0.03 % |
| FAAD AAC (MPEG4 Audio) | 0.03 % |
| MPEG Audio 2 Reserved | 0.03 % |
| DSPGroup True Speech | 0.02 % |
| Apple QuickTime IMA4 | 0.02 % |