index.md

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title: AudioData.format
slug: Web/API/AudioData/format
page-type: web-api-instance-property
status:
  - experimental
browser-compat: api.AudioData.format

---

{{APIRef("WebCodecs API")}}{{SeeCompatTable}}

The format read-only property of the {{domxref("AudioData")}} interface returns the sample format of the AudioData object.

Value

A string. One of:

• "u8"

  • : 8-bit unsigned integer samples, in an interleaved format.

• "s16"

  • : 16-bit signed integer samples, in an interleaved format.

• "s32"

  • : 32-bit signed integer samples, in an interleaved format.

• "f32"

  • : 32-bit float samples, in an interleaved format.

• "u8-planar"

  • : 8-bit unsigned integer samples, in a planar format.

• "s16-planar"

  • : 16-bit signed integer samples, in a planar format.

• "s32-planar"

  • : 32-bit signed integer samples, in a planar format.

• "f32-planar"

  • : 32-bit float samples, in a planar format.

Examples

The below example prints the value of format to the console.

console.log(AudioData.format);

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}