Audio file formats

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced or ) is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers. The format was developed and published for the first time in 1991 by IBM and Microsoft. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows systems for uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format.

audio data compression technology

file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system

file format family

audio formats

file format family based on the Microsoft Wave file format

digitally coded format for audio signals

file format