WAV [ waveform audio file format ] .wav file / WAVE format / WAV format
WAV is one of the file formats for recording audio data. It is famous as a format that Windows supports as standard and the standard file name extension is “.wav”.
WAV
A file format jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM based on the RIFF format, which is a commonly used data record file format It is one of the container formats that defines only the layout and method of storing data in a file , and can store data in various compression formats, regardless of the expression format or the compression format of the data itself.
It is sometimes explained that it is an uncompressed audio format because uncompressed PCM data is often recorded in the standard, but this is a misunderstanding and it is in fact compressed in WMA or MP3 format. To record and play audio in a format that is not supported by the standard, a codec (CODEC: COmpressor / DECompressor) is required to handle that format.
