---
title: kAudioFilePropertySourceBitDepth
framework: audiotoolbox
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertysourcebitdepth
---

# kAudioFilePropertySourceBitDepth

For compressed data, this property’s value is the bit depth of the source, uncompressed audio stream as an SInt32 value, if known. The bit depth is expressed as a negative number if the uncompressed source was in a floating point format. For example, a property value of -32 is used for float and a property value of -64 represents double.

## Declaration

```swift
var kAudioFilePropertySourceBitDepth: AudioFilePropertyID { get }
```

## See Also

### Constants

- [kAudioFilePropertyFileFormat](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertyfileformat.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyDataFormat](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertydataformat.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyFormatList](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertyformatlist.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyIsOptimized](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertyisoptimized.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyMagicCookieData](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertymagiccookiedata.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyAudioDataByteCount](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertyaudiodatabytecount.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyAudioDataPacketCount](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertyaudiodatapacketcount.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyMaximumPacketSize](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertymaximumpacketsize.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyDataOffset](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertydataoffset.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyChannelLayout](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertychannellayout.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyDeferSizeUpdates](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertydefersizeupdates.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyDataFormatName](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertydataformatname.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyMarkerList](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertymarkerlist.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyRegionList](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertyregionlist.md)
- [kAudioFilePropertyPacketToFrame](audiotoolbox/kaudiofilepropertypackettoframe.md)
