WAV
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Revision as of 12:59, 11 December 2012
WAV is a widely used audio format, originally developed by Microsoft and IBM and based on the RIFF wrapper format. The usual audio encoding in a .wav file is LPCM, considered an 'uncompressed' encoding. Because of large file sizes, WAV is not well-suited for distributing audio such as songs or podcasts. WAV is used in MS-Windows to store sounds used in applications. It is also used as an archival format for first-generation (master) files, often with a metadata chunk as specified in the Broadcast Wave (BWF) standard.
See Also: List of applications known to use .WAV
References
- WAV : Wikipedia
- WAVE Audio File Format, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats
- Broadcast WAVE Audio File Format, Version 1, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats
- WAVE and AVI Codec Registries (Historic Registry) Hosted by IANA. Implies use of audio/vnd.wav as mimetype.
