Is there any ways to create my own audio file format? I'm planning to create simple player with its codec. What should I learn before now?
thanks.
An audio file format is not the same as an audio codec. For example the WAV file format can contain audio compressed with a wide variety of codecs.
To create your own audio compression format, you would need to learn a lot about digital signal processing (DSP). The approach you take depends on what type of audio you are compressing (e.g. speech or music, mono or stereo etc), and how you weigh the tradeoff between audio quality and file size.