The EDL is how Broadcast 2000 internally represents the timeline you see on the screen. It specifies where to put regions of files on the timeline, without touching one sample or one frame. This way, Broadcast 2000 never loads files into RAM but loads pointers to files into the EDL. With EDL based editing, you'll arrange CDs much faster than your Win98 buddies.EDL's are saved in a format called hypertext audio language (HTAL). Save a file and load it into a text editor and you'll see something much like HTML or for Linux hackers, a web page. In fact, HTAL can be embedded in a web page. Don't attempt to load a web page and save it from Broadcast 2000 because you'll lose all the non HTAL data.