{
 "id": "creative-voice-file",
 "name": "Creative Voice File",
 "category": "audio",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "voc"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "audio/x-voc"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/1736"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q27967410"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "437265617469766520566f6963652046696c65",
    "notes": "Creative Voice File"
   },
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "437265617469766520566f6963652046"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Creative Voice File",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "437265617469766520566f6963652046696c65"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "Creative Voice File is an audio format developed in the 1990s developed by Creative Labs for the storage of uncompressed PCM audio data for use on Sound Blaster boards.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "FFmpeg",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "license": "LGPL-2.1-or-later / GPL-2.0-or-later",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Awave Studio",
   "url": "https://www.fmjsoft.com/awavestudio.html#main",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Music on Console",
   "url": "http://moc.daper.net/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Sound Forge XP 3.0",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116619109",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "VLC media player",
   "url": "https://www.videolan.org/vlc/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later",
   "open_source": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Creative_Voice_File",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "Kaitai Struct: creative_voice_file",
   "url": "https://formats.kaitai.io/creative_voice_file/",
   "kind": "grammar",
   "license": "CC0-1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1736",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/1736",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q27967410",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27967410",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "converters",
   "ffw",
   "kaitai",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "parsers": [
  {
   "engine": "kaitai",
   "url": "https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/blob/master/media/creative_voice_file.ksy",
   "license": "CC0-1.0"
  }
 ],
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "flac-free-lossless-audio-codec-1-2-1",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.voc out.flac",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "waveform-audio",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.voc out.wav",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-1-2-audio-layer-3",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.voc out.mp3",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "ogg",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.voc out.ogg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-4-part-14",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.voc out.mp4",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "matroska-1-4",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.voc out.mkv",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "webm",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.voc out.webm",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  }
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}