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WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. It is a variant of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in "chunks", and thus also close to the IFF and the AIFF format used on Macintosh computers. Both WAVs and AIFFs are compatible with Windows and Macintosh operating systems. It takes into account some differences of the Intel CPU such as little-endian byte order. The RIFF format acts as a "wrapper" for various audio compression codecs. It is the main format used on Windows systems for raw audio. A filename extension is an extra set of (usually) alphanumeric characters that is appended to the end of a filename to allow computer users (as well as various pieces of software on the computer system) to quickly determine the type of data stored in the file. ...
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Audio Interchange File Format is a file format standard used for storing audio data on PCs. ...
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Though a WAV file can hold compressed audio, the most common WAV format contains uncompressed audio in the pulse-code modulation (PCM) format. PCM audio is the standard audio file format for CDs at 44,100 samples per second. Since PCM uses an uncompressed, lossless storage method, which keeps all the samples of an audio track, professional users or audio experts may use the WAV format for maximum audio quality. WAV audio can also be edited and manipulated with relative ease using software. Audio compression is a form of data compression designed to reduce the size of audio data files. ...
Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a digital representation of an analog signal where the magnitude of the signal is sampled regularly at uniform intervals, then quantized to a series of symbols in a digital (usually binary) code. ...
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Popularity
As file sharing over the Internet has become popular, the WAV format has declined in popularity, primarily because uncompressed WAV files are quite large in size. More frequently, compressed but lossy formats such as MP3, and AAC are used to store and transfer audio, since their smaller file sizes allow for faster transmission over the internet as well as lower disk space consumption. There are also more efficient lossless codecs available, such as Monkey's Audio, TTA, WavPack, FLAC, Shorten, Apple Lossless and WMA Lossless. File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ...
A lossy data compression method is one where compressing data and then decompressing it retrieves data that may well be different from the original, but is close enough to be useful in some way. ...
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Monkey’s Audio is a lossless audio compression codec. ...
True Audio (abbreviated TTA) is a free, simple real-time lossless audio codec, based on adaptive prognostic filters which has shown satisfactory results comparing to majority of modern analogs. ...
WavPack is a free, open source lossless audio compression format developed by David Bryant. ...
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SHN (Shorten) is a file format used to losslessly compress CD-quality audio files (44. ...
Apple Lossless (also known as Apple Lossless Encoder, ALE, or Apple Lossless Audio Codec, ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Computer for lossless compression of digital music. ...
Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless is a lossless data lossless audio codec by Microsoft, released in early 2003. ...
The usage of the WAV format has more to do with its simplicity and simple structure, which is heavily based on the IFF file format. Because of this, it continues to enjoy widespread use with a variety of software applications, often functioning as a lowest common denominator when it comes to exchanging sound files between different programs.
Limitations The WAV format is limited to files that are less than 4 GB in size, due to its use of a 32 bit unsigned integer to record the file size header (some programs limit the file size to 2 GB). Although this is equivalent to about 6.6 hours of CD-quality audio (44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo), it is sometimes necessary to go over this limit. The W64 format was therefore created for use in Sound Forge. Its 64-bit header allows for much longer recording times. This format can be converted using the libsndfile library. The RF64 format specified by the European Broadcasting Union has also been created to solve this problem. Sound Forge 8 Sony Sound Forge, formerly known as Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, is a digital audio editing and creation suite aimed at the semi-professional as well as the professional market. ...
Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing sound formats. ...
RF64 is a BWF-compatible multichannel file format enabling file sizes to exceed 4 Gbyte. ...
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Audio CDs Audio CDs do not use WAV as their sound format, instead using Red Book audio. The commonality is that both audio CDs and WAV files have the audio data encoded in PCM. WAV is a data file format for computer use. If one were to transfer an audio CD bit stream to WAV files and record them onto a CD-R as a data disc (in ISO format), the CD could not be played in a player that was only designed to play audio CDs. The Compact Disc logo was inspired by that of the previous Compact Cassette. ...
The CDDA trademark Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). ...
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See also - BWF, Broadcast Wave Format
- RF64, An extended File Format for Audio (multichannel file format enabling file sizes to exceed 4 Gbyte)
BWF is an abbreviation of Broadcast Wave file Format . ...
RF64 is a BWF-compatible multichannel file format enabling file sizes to exceed 4 Gbyte. ...
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