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Standard audio file container format used mainly in Windows PCs. Commonly used for storing uncompressed , CD-quality sound files, which means that they can be large in size—around 10 MB per minute. Wave files can also contain data encoded with a variety of (lossy) codecs to reduce the file size (for example the GSM or MP3 formats).
Screenshot of Windows Media Encoder 9 Series, displaying new encoding options for Windows Media Audio 10 Professional. Windows Media Audio Professional (WMA Pro) is an improved lossy codec closely related to WMA standards. It retains most of the same general coding features, but also features improved entropy coding and quantization strategies ...
Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; [3] [6] [7] pronounced / w æ v / or / w eɪ v / [8]) 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.
The 'Music' category is merely a guideline on commercialized uses of a particular format, not a technical assessment of its capabilities. For example, MP3 and AAC dominate the personal audio market in terms of market share, though many other formats are comparably well suited to fill this role from a purely technical standpoint.
AIFF, AIF, AIFC – Audio Interchange File Format; AU – Simple audio file format introduced by Sun Microsystems; AUP3 – Audacity's file for when you save a song; BWF – Broadcast Wave Format, an extension of WAVE; CDDA – Compact Disc Digital Audio; DSF, DFF – Direct Stream Digital audio file, also used in Super Audio CD
Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM, generally only described as PCM) is the format for uncompressed audio in media files and it is also the standard for CD-DA; note that in computers, LPCM is usually stored in container formats such as WAV, AIFF, or AU, or as raw audio format, although not technically necessary.
An audio coding format [1] (or sometimes audio compression format) is a content representation format for storage or transmission of digital audio (such as in digital television, digital radio and in audio and video files). Examples of audio coding formats include MP3, AAC, Vorbis, FLAC, and Opus.
The size of a CDA file being fixed, as well as its organization, there is always only one and only chunk, named "CDDA" (meaning compact disc for digital audio). The identifier created by Windows is used by the Windows 95 and Windows 98 CD drive (cdplayer.exe). This player cannot connect to FreeDB or CDDB. So that it can display the artist name ...