Audio codec

Audio codec - device or program that encodes/decodes audio data in some bitstream format. Article “Audio codec” in English Wikipedia has 17.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Audio codec”, its content was written by 84 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 246 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 360 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1020 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1791 in November 2001
• Global: #1918 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #74482 in June 2008
• Global: #79193 in June 2008

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Catalan (ca) Còdec d'àudio		30.8137
2	Spanish (es) Códec de audio		28.1551
3	Russian (ru) Аудиокодек		27.5973
4	Arabic (ar) ترميز الصوت		21.9984
5	Korean (ko) 오디오 코덱		21.5868
6	Chinese (zh) 音频编解码器		18.5231
7	English (en) Audio codec		17.3627
8	Japanese (ja) オーディオコーデック		10.5327
9	Italian (it) Codec audio		5.1759
10	Portuguese (pt) Codec de áudio		4.6231

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Audio codec" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Audio codec		1 133 353
2	Spanish (es) Códec de audio		418 046
3	Russian (ru) Аудиокодек		259 466
4	Italian (it) Codec audio		64 567
5	Portuguese (pt) Codec de áudio		50 947
6	Chinese (zh) 音频编解码器		27 397
7	Korean (ko) 오디오 코덱		26 273
8	Japanese (ja) オーディオコーデック		20 734
9	Ukrainian (uk) Аудіо-кодек		15 226
10	Turkish (tr) Ses çözücü		13 550

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Audio codec" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Audio codec		1 436
2	Russian (ru) Аудиокодек		215
3	Spanish (es) Códec de audio		156
4	Japanese (ja) オーディオコーデック		105
5	Chinese (zh) 音频编解码器		92
6	Italian (it) Codec audio		41
7	Catalan (ca) Còdec d'àudio		27
8	Portuguese (pt) Codec de áudio		27
9	Korean (ko) 오디오 코덱		12
10	Turkish (tr) Ses çözücü		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Audio codec" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Audio codec		84
2	Spanish (es) Códec de audio		38
3	Catalan (ca) Còdec d'àudio		25
4	Italian (it) Codec audio		24
5	Russian (ru) Аудиокодек		23
6	Ukrainian (uk) Аудіо-кодек		13
7	Turkish (tr) Ses çözücü		10
8	Chinese (zh) 音频编解码器		8
9	Arabic (ar) ترميز الصوت		6
10	Portuguese (pt) Codec de áudio		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Audio codec" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ترميز الصوت		1
2	Bulgarian (bg) Аудио кодиране		0
3	Catalan (ca) Còdec d'àudio		0
4	English (en) Audio codec		0
5	Spanish (es) Códec de audio		0
6	Estonian (et) Audiokoodek		0
7	Italian (it) Codec audio		0
8	Japanese (ja) オーディオコーデック		0
9	Korean (ko) 오디오 코덱		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Codec de áudio		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Audio codec" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Audio codec		360
2	Chinese (zh) 音频编解码器		129
3	Ukrainian (uk) Аудіо-кодек		87
4	Russian (ru) Аудиокодек		84
5	Turkish (tr) Ses çözücü		68
6	Spanish (es) Códec de audio		60
7	Italian (it) Codec audio		53
8	Korean (ko) 오디오 코덱		52
9	Arabic (ar) ترميز الصوت		44
10	Catalan (ca) Còdec d'àudio		42

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ترميز الصوت
bg	Bulgarian Аудио кодиране
ca	Catalan Còdec d'àudio
en	English Audio codec
es	Spanish Códec de audio
et	Estonian Audiokoodek
it	Italian Codec audio
ja	Japanese オーディオコーデック
ko	Korean 오디오 코덱
pt	Portuguese Codec de áudio
ru	Russian Аудиокодек
tr	Turkish Ses çözücü
uk	Ukrainian Аудіо-кодек
zh	Chinese 音频编解码器

Best Rank

English: #74482 06.2008

Global: #79193 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #1791 11.2001

Global: #1918 11.2001

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