WD ELEMENTS PLAY MULTIMEDIA DRIVE
USER MANUAL
APPENDIX – 59
Supported Media File Formats

Audio

Format Supported? Supported file extensions Supported in video
container
MP3 (CBR, VBR
32~320kbps)
Yes .m p3 Ye s
MP2 Yes .mp2 Yes
WAV/PCM/LPCM/
ADPCM
Yes .wav/.wave/.adpcm Yes
AAC (Mpeg 2/4) Yes .aac/.m4a/.m4b/.m4v/.m4r/
.mp4
Yes for 2 channel; No
for 2+ channel, and
only pass-through
Dolby Digital Yes .ac3 Yes for 2 channel; No
for 2+ channel, and
only pass-through
Dolby Digital Plus Yes .ac3 Yes for 2 channel; No
for 2+ channel, and
only pass-through
Dolby TrueHD Yes .ac3 Yes for 2 channel; No
for 2+ channel, and
only pass-through
DTS 2.0 Yes Yes for 2 channel; No
for 2+ channel, and
only pass-through
FLAC Yes .flac Yes
WMA Yes .wma Yes
WMA Pro Yes .wma Yes
WMA Lossless No .wma No, only
pass-through
APE with Cue support Yes .ape No
RA Yes .ra Yes
ATRAC No .ult/.uwf No