Waveform Audio File Format
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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.
Key facts
- File format.name
- Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE/WAV)
- File format.extension
- .wav .wave
- File format.mime
- audio/vnd.wave, audio/wav, audio/wave, audio/x-wav
- File format.type code
- WAVE
- File format.uniform type
- com.microsoft.waveform-audio
- File format.owner
- IBM and Microsoft
- File format.latest release version
- Multiple Channel Audio Data and WAVE Files
- File format.latest release date
- (update)
- File format.genre
- Audio file format, container format
- File format.extended from
- RIFF
- File format.extended to
- BWF, RF64
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- digital container format
- Has part
- MPEG-1 Audio Layer II
- Based on
- Resource Interchange File Format
- Developer
- IBM
- Image
- AudacityWAV.png
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- file extension
- wave
- publication date
- 1991-08-00
- media type
- audio/x-pn-wav
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/wav
- Commons category
- Waveform audio format
- file format identification pattern
- 57415645
- exact match
- rs.tdwg.org/format/values/m025
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Waveform Audio File Format (in apocope WAVE, o WAV a causa dell'estensione del nome file) è uno standard di formato digitale per file audio sviluppato da Microsoft e IBM, usato per memorizzare bitstream audio su PC. È il formato principale utilizzato sui sistemi Microsoft Windows per l'audio grezzo e non compresso; la codifica bitstream usata è il formato LPCM (Linear Pulse Code Modulation).
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