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Does anyone know what this codec type is, or where I could find out? Mr. Jones 10:07, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I'm confused, this article describes PCM as lossless whereas all other articles seem to describe it as lossy ( Lossy data compression, List of codecs). -- gb 08:31, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
How many audio channels can a wav file have? -- Zilog Jones 00:01, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
The values in "1 min" column are wrong. For example "11,025 Hz 16 bit PCM" is said to be "1291k" per minute. Thats just the Prefix it doesn't have any unit of measurement. I guessing it should be Byte? And shouldn't the value be ((Bitrate * 60)/8)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.71.53 ( talk) 02:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm don't think the limit calculation is accurate. If the maximum file size is 2^32 bytes, then by my calculation the file can be up to 13.5 hours. [1]. The issue may be that some programs treat the file size as an signed integer, which would limit it to 2^31 bytes. However, I think the format itself uses unsigned. Superm401 - Talk 10:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
I want an example wav file on this site. Yes sir. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.254.4.90 ( talk) 21:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
A "standard" .wav file is signed, 16-bit, little-endian. The easy way to tell is to generate a short section of silence, and note that the data values are all 0000. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.171.29 ( talk) 20:36, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The section WAV file compression codecs compared simply starts with no discussion of how compression in WAV files is accommodated, or how it is rare. I see a need for an introductory paragraph. (I can't write this as I know nothing about compressed WAV. I was unaware such a thing even existed.) Also, I am not sure that the long table is appropriate. The article is about WAV; it is not about comparing different audio compression algorithms. What do others think? HairyWombat ( talk) 20:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
It seems the sampling rate can be set anywhere from 1 Hz to 4.3 GHz, and it has no problem storing signals down to DC. Has anyone used WAV files to store non-audio data, like low-frequency seismic recordings or high-frequency ultrasound?
Apparently so.
LTspice can write .wav audio files. These files can then
be listened to or be used as the input of another simulation. ... <Nbits> is the number of sampling bits. The valid range is from 1 to 32 bits. <SampleRate> is the number of samples to write per simulated second. The valid range is 1 to 4294967295 samples be second. The remainder of the syntax lists the nodes that you wish to save. Each node will be an independent channel in the .wav file. The number of channels may be as few as one or as many as 65535. It is possible to write a device current, e.g., Ib(Q1) as well as node voltage. The .wav analog to digital converter has a
full scale range of -1 to +1 Volt or Amp.
http://ltspice.linear.com/software/scad3.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.63.131 ( talk) 14:59, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
I wonder whether the article title should in fact be Wave Audio File Format, with WAV redirecting to this location? Given that it is the full name of the format s. AIFF ( Audio Interchange File Format) currently works this way and I think it works better. Any thoughts? Fattonyni ( talk) 14:58, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
.wv is file extension of wavpack —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.168.56.1 ( talk) 13:12, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
I have some doubts about this section. A discussion of lossy formats and why they're commonly used may be interesting in itself, but perhaps this article is not the best place to discuss this. Also, given that things change over time, the very idea of a section called "POPULARITY" is liable to become unstuck over time. 92.234.48.114 ( talk) 14:52, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
No consensus to move. Vegaswikian ( talk) 06:10, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
WAV → Waveform Audio File Format — Shall this article be moved from WAV to Waveform Audio File Format, in the manner of the AIFF article title Audio Interchange File Format? Binksternet ( talk) 18:48, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm not a specialist, so I might be wrong about something; but, for example, if you use FL Studio to generate a WAV file, and if you have Artist / Title information stored inside the project, the resulting WAV file seems to have this information inside it. For example, Winamp shows this information, but you can't edit it (File info option just shows info about number of channels, etc.) Foobar and some other players, on the other hand, don't show this info. If necessary, I can provide a WAV file containing this Artist / Title information as an example (not violating the copyright - it's my own mashup). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.100.51.220 ( talk) 23:51, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
The "Use by broadcasters" part is completely uninteresting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.236.187.110 ( talk) 14:07, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Waveform Audio File Format [...] is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard [...] If it's a standard, under what has it been standardized (ISO/IEC,...)??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.148.98.77 ( talk) 14:44, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
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The professional usage, such as BBS news, seems well covered in this article, but amateurs seem to be almost ignored here.
Forgive me if I use the wrong terminology here, but I'm an amateur who typically records over 10 hours a week of FM voice quality audio in .wav 44.1 kHz mono format, to later edit and convert it to MP3 for distribution into the internet wild. It's often as email. At mono, FM radio voice quality, I use untypically high MP3 compression rates. I keep 55 minute MP3s well under 25 MB.
My questions are in the context of practicality, not mathematical theory. The only reason I use WAV is my assumption that it can be edited multiple times without sound degradation (analogy: editing BMP versus jpeg(?)). One result is I have many dozens of wav files on my little disk. That would be fine if I had unlimited resources but I do not. My software allows me to record at 9 different sample rate WAV formats from 48 to 8 kHz, but my concern is compatibility with other people since I do occasionally export in .WAV in emergencies. However I do not want to record and edit in an oddball incompatible sample rate. Is this incompatibility worry an unfounded, imaginary worry? Are there typical, commonly used sample rates besides 44.1 kHz? And I also wonder about my assumption that recording at say, half that sample rate, that editing also would not degrade audio quality in practical terms?
I don't know enough to ask an intelligent question, but I think if the article answered these vague questions, not only would it help people like me understand what is going on, but it would give a better, gut-feeling explanation of what WAV is, and it's capabilities and weaknesses. I think examples can be powerful communication tools. Thoughts?<Br>Thanks! <Br>Doug Bashford, Fresno <Br>
WD Bashford ( talk) 20:32, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
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Does anyone know what this codec type is, or where I could find out? Mr. Jones 10:07, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I'm confused, this article describes PCM as lossless whereas all other articles seem to describe it as lossy ( Lossy data compression, List of codecs). -- gb 08:31, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
How many audio channels can a wav file have? -- Zilog Jones 00:01, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
The values in "1 min" column are wrong. For example "11,025 Hz 16 bit PCM" is said to be "1291k" per minute. Thats just the Prefix it doesn't have any unit of measurement. I guessing it should be Byte? And shouldn't the value be ((Bitrate * 60)/8)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.71.53 ( talk) 02:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm don't think the limit calculation is accurate. If the maximum file size is 2^32 bytes, then by my calculation the file can be up to 13.5 hours. [1]. The issue may be that some programs treat the file size as an signed integer, which would limit it to 2^31 bytes. However, I think the format itself uses unsigned. Superm401 - Talk 10:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
I want an example wav file on this site. Yes sir. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.254.4.90 ( talk) 21:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
A "standard" .wav file is signed, 16-bit, little-endian. The easy way to tell is to generate a short section of silence, and note that the data values are all 0000. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.171.29 ( talk) 20:36, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The section WAV file compression codecs compared simply starts with no discussion of how compression in WAV files is accommodated, or how it is rare. I see a need for an introductory paragraph. (I can't write this as I know nothing about compressed WAV. I was unaware such a thing even existed.) Also, I am not sure that the long table is appropriate. The article is about WAV; it is not about comparing different audio compression algorithms. What do others think? HairyWombat ( talk) 20:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
It seems the sampling rate can be set anywhere from 1 Hz to 4.3 GHz, and it has no problem storing signals down to DC. Has anyone used WAV files to store non-audio data, like low-frequency seismic recordings or high-frequency ultrasound?
Apparently so.
LTspice can write .wav audio files. These files can then
be listened to or be used as the input of another simulation. ... <Nbits> is the number of sampling bits. The valid range is from 1 to 32 bits. <SampleRate> is the number of samples to write per simulated second. The valid range is 1 to 4294967295 samples be second. The remainder of the syntax lists the nodes that you wish to save. Each node will be an independent channel in the .wav file. The number of channels may be as few as one or as many as 65535. It is possible to write a device current, e.g., Ib(Q1) as well as node voltage. The .wav analog to digital converter has a
full scale range of -1 to +1 Volt or Amp.
http://ltspice.linear.com/software/scad3.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.63.131 ( talk) 14:59, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
I wonder whether the article title should in fact be Wave Audio File Format, with WAV redirecting to this location? Given that it is the full name of the format s. AIFF ( Audio Interchange File Format) currently works this way and I think it works better. Any thoughts? Fattonyni ( talk) 14:58, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
.wv is file extension of wavpack —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.168.56.1 ( talk) 13:12, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
I have some doubts about this section. A discussion of lossy formats and why they're commonly used may be interesting in itself, but perhaps this article is not the best place to discuss this. Also, given that things change over time, the very idea of a section called "POPULARITY" is liable to become unstuck over time. 92.234.48.114 ( talk) 14:52, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
No consensus to move. Vegaswikian ( talk) 06:10, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
WAV → Waveform Audio File Format — Shall this article be moved from WAV to Waveform Audio File Format, in the manner of the AIFF article title Audio Interchange File Format? Binksternet ( talk) 18:48, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm not a specialist, so I might be wrong about something; but, for example, if you use FL Studio to generate a WAV file, and if you have Artist / Title information stored inside the project, the resulting WAV file seems to have this information inside it. For example, Winamp shows this information, but you can't edit it (File info option just shows info about number of channels, etc.) Foobar and some other players, on the other hand, don't show this info. If necessary, I can provide a WAV file containing this Artist / Title information as an example (not violating the copyright - it's my own mashup). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.100.51.220 ( talk) 23:51, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
The "Use by broadcasters" part is completely uninteresting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.236.187.110 ( talk) 14:07, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Waveform Audio File Format [...] is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard [...] If it's a standard, under what has it been standardized (ISO/IEC,...)??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.148.98.77 ( talk) 14:44, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
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WAV. Please take a moment to review
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Cheers. — cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 23:17, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
The professional usage, such as BBS news, seems well covered in this article, but amateurs seem to be almost ignored here.
Forgive me if I use the wrong terminology here, but I'm an amateur who typically records over 10 hours a week of FM voice quality audio in .wav 44.1 kHz mono format, to later edit and convert it to MP3 for distribution into the internet wild. It's often as email. At mono, FM radio voice quality, I use untypically high MP3 compression rates. I keep 55 minute MP3s well under 25 MB.
My questions are in the context of practicality, not mathematical theory. The only reason I use WAV is my assumption that it can be edited multiple times without sound degradation (analogy: editing BMP versus jpeg(?)). One result is I have many dozens of wav files on my little disk. That would be fine if I had unlimited resources but I do not. My software allows me to record at 9 different sample rate WAV formats from 48 to 8 kHz, but my concern is compatibility with other people since I do occasionally export in .WAV in emergencies. However I do not want to record and edit in an oddball incompatible sample rate. Is this incompatibility worry an unfounded, imaginary worry? Are there typical, commonly used sample rates besides 44.1 kHz? And I also wonder about my assumption that recording at say, half that sample rate, that editing also would not degrade audio quality in practical terms?
I don't know enough to ask an intelligent question, but I think if the article answered these vague questions, not only would it help people like me understand what is going on, but it would give a better, gut-feeling explanation of what WAV is, and it's capabilities and weaknesses. I think examples can be powerful communication tools. Thoughts?<Br>Thanks! <Br>Doug Bashford, Fresno <Br>
WD Bashford ( talk) 20:32, 20 June 2024 (UTC)