ASF to ALAC Converter

What is an ASF (Advanced Systems Format) file?

Advanced Systems Format (ASF) is a proprietary Microsoft product, which serves as a container for Windows multimedia content. Microsoft designed it for streaming and to be independent of systems and protocols. It supports chapters, captions, subtitles, metadata tags, streaming, and hardware players, but does not support menus.

How to open an ASF file?

It is best to use Windows Media Player to open an ASF file. Alternatively, VLC media player is a good choice too. Keep in mind that ASF can contain WMA and WMV files, which might display as the file extension of the ASF file.

Developed by: Microsoft

Initial release: 1995

Useful links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Systems_Format

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/wmformat/overview-of-the-asf-format