WAV File Format
WAV is a variant of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in “chunks”, and thus also close to the IFF and the AIFF format used on Amiga and Macintosh computers, respectively. Both WAVs and AIFFs are compatible with Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The format takes into account some differences of the Intel CPU such as little-endian byte order. The RIFF format acts as a “wrapper” for various audio compression codecs.
WAV is probably the simplest format for storing audio samples. Unlike MPEG and other compressed formats, WAVs store samples in the raw where no pre-processing is required other that formatting of the data. WAV, a variant of the RIFF bitstream format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs.
Uncompressed WAV files are quite large in size. WAV file consists of three chunks of information: The RIFF chunk which identifies the file as a WAV file, The FORMAT chunk which identifies parameters such as sample rate and the DATA chunk which contains the actual data samples.
NoteBurner WAV Converter
Audio professional, musicians and audiophiles are fond of WAV audio because of its audio fidelity. The raw WAV audio file is excellent for editing and audition. Nonetheless, WAV audio files would be inconvenient to transfer and share due to the large file size. Converting WAV audio to MP3 is a good idea to deal with the problem. With NoteBurner Audio Converter, you can now easily convert WAV audio to MP3 and WMA.
NoteBurner WAV Audio Converter is a versatile WAV to MP3 Converter. The WAV Audio Converter is compatible with iTunes, WMP 10, Real Player, Adobe Audition (Cool Edit) and many other audio players and audio editors.
NoteBurner WAV Audio Converter applies virtual CD burning technology to simulate the burning and ripping process. By doing so it converts DRM protected audio files, such as m4p, m4a, m4b, wma and audio book, and unprotected audio, such as wma, mp3, wav, rax, mp4, ra, snd, aac, ogg, aa and aif, etc. to mp3, wav and wma.
