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* [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000001.shtml WAVE Audio File Format, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats]
 
* [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000001.shtml WAVE Audio File Format, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats]
 
* [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000356.shtml Broadcast WAVE Audio File Format, Version 1, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats]
 
* [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000356.shtml Broadcast WAVE Audio File Format, Version 1, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats]
* [http://www.iana.org/assignments/wave-avi-codec-registry/wave-avi-codec-registry.xml WAVE and AVI Codec Registries (Historic Registry)] Hosted by IANA.  Implies use of audio/vnd-wav as mimetype.
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* [http://www.iana.org/assignments/wave-avi-codec-registry/wave-avi-codec-registry.xml WAVE and AVI Codec Registries (Historic Registry)] Hosted by IANA.  Implies use of audio/vnd.wav as mimetype.

Revision as of 07:41, 15 November 2012

File Formats > Electronic File Formats > Audio > WAV
File Format
Name WAV
Ontology
Extension(s) .wav
MIME Type(s) audio/x-wav
audio/vnd.wav
audio/wav
PRONOM fmt/6

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

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