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WAV - Waveform Audio File Format

 

Format introduction:

Waveform Audio File Format is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is the main format used on Windows systems for raw and typically uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format.

Technical details:

Though a WAV file can contain compressed audio, the most common WAV audio format is uncompressed audio in the linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) format. Audio in WAV files can be encoded in a variety of audio coding formats, such as GSM or MP3, to reduce the file size.

 

File extension	.wav .wave
MIME	audio/vnd.wave, audio/wav, audio/wave, audio/x-wav
Developed by	Microsoft & IBM
Type of format	Audio file format, container format
Associated programs	ALLPlayer, VLC media player, Media Player Classic, MPlayer, RealPlayer, Winamp.
Sample file	sample.wav
Wikipedia	WAV on Wikipedia