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|mimetypes={{mimetype|audio/x-wav}}<br>{{mimetype|audio/vnd.wave}}<br>{{mimetype|audio/wav}}<br>{{mimetype|audio/wave}}<br>{{mimetype|audio/x-pn-wav}}
 
|mimetypes={{mimetype|audio/x-wav}}<br>{{mimetype|audio/vnd.wave}}<br>{{mimetype|audio/wav}}<br>{{mimetype|audio/wave}}<br>{{mimetype|audio/x-pn-wav}}
 
|locfdd={{LoCFDD|fdd000001}}<br>{{LoCFDD|fdd000002}}<br>{{LoCFDD|fdd000356}}<br>{{LoCFDD|fdd000357}}
 
|locfdd={{LoCFDD|fdd000001}}<br>{{LoCFDD|fdd000002}}<br>{{LoCFDD|fdd000356}}<br>{{LoCFDD|fdd000357}}
|pronom={{PRONOM|fmt/6}}
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|pronom={{PRONOM|fmt/6}}, {{PRONOM|fmt/142}}
 
|released=1991
 
|released=1991
 
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== See Also ==
 
== See Also ==
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* [[Exif]]
 
* [[WAV (Applications)]] – List of applications known to use WAV
 
* [[WAV (Applications)]] – List of applications known to use WAV
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== Specifications ==
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* [http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/WAVE/WAVE.html Format spec]
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== Metaformat files ==
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* [https://www.synalysis.net/Grammars/wav.grammar Synalysis grammar file] (for Hexinator / Synalize It!; [[Synalysis grammar file|more details]])
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
 
* [[Wikipedia:WAV]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:WAV]]
 
* [http://www.iana.org/assignments/wave-avi-codec-registry/wave-avi-codec-registry.xml WAVE and AVI Codec Registries (Historic Registry)]
 
* [http://www.iana.org/assignments/wave-avi-codec-registry/wave-avi-codec-registry.xml WAVE and AVI Codec Registries (Historic Registry)]
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* [http://www.textfiles.com/programming/FORMATS/riffform.txt File format info]
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* [http://www.textfiles.com/programming/FORMATS/wavformat.pro Another file format info text file]
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* [http://imgur.com/a/PbN8H#0 WAV101 an audio file walkthrough]
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* [http://wiki.dpconline.org/images/4/46/WAV_Assessment_v1.0.pdf Format preservation assessment]
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[[Category:RIFF based file formats]]

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File Format
Name WAV
Ontology
Extension(s) .wav
.wave
MIME Type(s) audio/x-wav
audio/vnd.wave
audio/wav
audio/wave
audio/x-pn-wav
LoCFDD fdd000001
fdd000002
fdd000356
fdd000357
PRONOM fmt/6, fmt/142
Released 1991

The Waveform Audio File Format (WAV or WAVE) 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.

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