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This category lists tools to encode/decode audio to or from a particular format.
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This category lists software to encode/decode audio to or from a particular codec (format).
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In this case, ''codec'' refers to the encoding/format itself, not the tools. For articles about the formats, see [[:Category:Codecs|the Codecs category]].
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There is some overlap between the two categories, since some articles talk about the formats and the software.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 02:20, 12 September 2012

This category lists software to encode/decode audio to or from a particular codec (format).

In this case, codec refers to the encoding/format itself, not the tools. For articles about the formats, see the Codecs category. There is some overlap between the two categories, since some articles talk about the formats and the software.