What format is WAV?

WAV is a sound file format developed by Microsoft (Microsoft) that conforms to the riff (Resource Interchange File format) documentation specification for storing audio information resources for the Windows platform. Widely supported by Windows platforms and applications, this format also supports a variety of compression algorithms such as Msadpcm,ccitt A, which supports multiple audio numbers, sampling frequencies and channels, standard formatted WAV files and CD formats, It is also 44.1K sampling frequency, 16-bit quantization number, so the sound file quality and CD-Similar! The WAV Open tool is a Windows Media Player.

Currently supporting the design of WAV mobile phones mainly for smartphones, such as Sony Ericsson P910 and Nokia N90 as well as the use of Microsoft OS Dopod and other mobile phones, and other non-smartphone products, if the promotional support WAV format is mostly only to support mono.

Wave is the standard Windows file format for recording, the file has the extension "WAV", the data itself is in the form of PCM or compression type.

WAV file format is a joint developed by Microsoft and IBM for audio digital storage standards, it uses the riff file format structure, very close to the AIFF and IFF format. Conforms to the RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) specification. All WAV has a file header, this file header audio stream encoding parameter.