An audio clip is an audio file used by the application to play a sound at the appropriate time.
An alert references one or more audio clips that should be played when the alert fires.
A database player can have an audio file associated with them that can be played by elimination or chip purchase alerts (depending on the settings in your console theme).
Audio clips are stored in the repository (the application copies them into the repository when you add them). They are managed in the audio clip library panel.
The application uses Java Sound to play back audio clips.
Java Sound supports the following audio file formats: AIFF, AU and WAV. It also supports the following MIDI based song file formats: SMF type 0 (Standard MIDI File, aka .mid files), SMF type 1 and RMF.
The Java Sound engine can render 8 or 16 bit audio data, in mono or stereo, with sample rates from 8KHz to 48KHz, that might be found in streaming audio or any of the supported file formats.
You can test your audio file for compatability at the time you are importing it by attempting to play it.