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Macromedia licensed the [[MP3]] technology in 1995 to use in their Shockwave product. .SWA or Shockwave Audio was originally added as a free plugin to SoundEdit 16 to export AIFF files to .SWA.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/k40jt/crosspost_from_rmodhelp_and_rhelp_help_reddit/c2n91l0/</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundEdit</ref>
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Macromedia licensed the [[MP3]] technology in 1995 to use in their [[Shockwave_(Director)|Shockwave]] product. .SWA or Shockwave Audio was originally added as a free plugin (Xtras) to SoundEdit 16 to export AIFF files to .SWA.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/k40jt/crosspost_from_rmodhelp_and_rhelp_help_reddit/c2n91l0/</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundEdit</ref>
  
 
==File Format==
 
==File Format==
.SWA files have the same structure as [[MP3]] files but with padding at the beginning of the file. Samples show the hex values {{magic|00 00 01 40 00 00 00 03 00 00 AC 44}} for the first 12 bytes. No ID3 tags obviously.
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.SWA files have the same structure as [[MP3]] files but with padding at the beginning of the file. Samples show the hex values {{magic|00 00 01 40 00 00 00 03 00 00}} for the first 10 bytes. No ID3 tags obviously.
  
 
==Software==
 
==Software==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20000817093650/http://www.macromedia.com/support/soundedit/how/shock/sound_devtools.html Shockwave Developer Tools for SoundEdit 16]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20000817093650/http://www.macromedia.com/support/soundedit/how/shock/sound_devtools.html Shockwave Developer Tools for SoundEdit 16 plugin & samples]
 
* [https://archive.org/details/macromediasoundedit16v1.0.1cd1994 Macromedia SoundEdit 16 v1.0.1 CD]
 
* [https://archive.org/details/macromediasoundedit16v1.0.1cd1994 Macromedia SoundEdit 16 v1.0.1 CD]
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
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Revision as of 21:44, 1 January 2020

File Format
Name SWA
Ontology
Extension(s) .swa
Released 1995

Macromedia licensed the MP3 technology in 1995 to use in their Shockwave product. .SWA or Shockwave Audio was originally added as a free plugin (Xtras) to SoundEdit 16 to export AIFF files to .SWA.[1][2]

File Format

.SWA files have the same structure as MP3 files but with padding at the beginning of the file. Samples show the hex values 00 00 01 40 00 00 00 03 00 00 for the first 10 bytes. No ID3 tags obviously.

Software

References

  1. https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/k40jt/crosspost_from_rmodhelp_and_rhelp_help_reddit/c2n91l0/
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundEdit
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