---
title: CMSoundDescriptionFlavor
framework: coremedia
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: coremedia/cmsounddescriptionflavor
---

# CMSoundDescriptionFlavor

Types that represent sound format descriptions.

## Declaration

```swift
struct CMSoundDescriptionFlavor
```

## Topics

### Sound Description Flavors

- [isoFamily](coremedia/cmsounddescriptionflavor/isofamily.md)
- [mobile3GPFamily](coremedia/cmsounddescriptionflavor/mobile3gpfamily.md)
- [quickTimeMovie](coremedia/cmsounddescriptionflavor/quicktimemovie.md)
- [quickTimeMovieV2](coremedia/cmsounddescriptionflavor/quicktimemoviev2.md)

### Creating Sound Description Flavors

- [init(_:)](coremedia/cmsounddescriptionflavor/init(_:).md)
- [init(rawValue:)](coremedia/cmsounddescriptionflavor/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Working with Audio Descriptions

- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionCreateSummary(allocator:formatDescriptionArray:flags:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptioncreatesummary(allocator:formatdescriptionarray:flags:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionCreate(allocator:asbd:layoutSize:layout:magicCookieSize:magicCookie:extensions:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptioncreate(allocator:asbd:layoutsize:layout:magiccookiesize:magiccookie:extensions:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionEqual(_:otherFormatDescription:equalityMask:equalityMaskOut:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptionequal(_:otherformatdescription:equalitymask:equalitymaskout:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetChannelLayout(_:sizeOut:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptiongetchannellayout(_:sizeout:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetFormatList(_:sizeOut:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptiongetformatlist(_:sizeout:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetMagicCookie(_:sizeOut:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptiongetmagiccookie(_:sizeout:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetMostCompatibleFormat(_:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptiongetmostcompatibleformat(_:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetRichestDecodableFormat(_:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptiongetrichestdecodableformat(_:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionGetStreamBasicDescription(_:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptiongetstreambasicdescription(_:).md)
- [CMDoesBigEndianSoundDescriptionRequireLegacyCBRSampleTableLayout(_:flavor:)](coremedia/cmdoesbigendiansounddescriptionrequirelegacycbrsampletablelayout(_:flavor:).md)
- [CMSwapBigEndianSoundDescriptionToHost(_:_:)](coremedia/cmswapbigendiansounddescriptiontohost(_:_:).md)
- [CMSwapHostEndianSoundDescriptionToBig(_:_:)](coremedia/cmswaphostendiansounddescriptiontobig(_:_:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionCreateFromBigEndianSoundDescriptionData(allocator:bigEndianSoundDescriptionData:size:flavor:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptioncreatefrombigendiansounddescriptiondata(allocator:bigendiansounddescriptiondata:size:flavor:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionCreateFromBigEndianSoundDescriptionBlockBuffer(allocator:bigEndianSoundDescriptionBlockBuffer:flavor:formatDescriptionOut:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptioncreatefrombigendiansounddescriptionblockbuffer(allocator:bigendiansounddescriptionblockbuffer:flavor:formatdescriptionout:).md)
- [CMAudioFormatDescriptionCopyAsBigEndianSoundDescriptionBlockBuffer(allocator:audioFormatDescription:flavor:blockBufferOut:)](coremedia/cmaudioformatdescriptioncopyasbigendiansounddescriptionblockbuffer(allocator:audioformatdescription:flavor:blockbufferout:).md)