What is WAV?

WAV is an audio file format that was developed by Microsoft. It is so wide spread today that it is called a standard PC audio file format. A Wave file is identified by a file name extension of WAV (.wav). Used primarily in PCs, the Wave file format has been accepted as a viable interchange medium for other computer platforms, such as Macintosh. This allows content developers to freely move audio files between platforms for processing, for example.

The Wave file format stores information about the file's number of tracks (mono or stereo), sample rate, bit depth, as well as the uncompressed raw audio data.

Pros

• Can be played by nearly all Windows applications that support sound
• Fast decoding

Cons

• Very large file size

Total Audio Converter supports the following conversions with WAV format files:

WAV to MP3 WAV to WMA WAV to WAV (change bitrate or frequency) WAV to OGG WAV to FLAC WAV to AAC WAV to MP4 WAV to MPC WAV to APE

MP3 to WAV WMA to WAV OGG to WAV RA to WAV CDA to WAV FLAC to WAV APE to WAV APL to WAV AAC to WAV MPC to WAV MPP to WAV MP4 to WAV OFR to WAV SPX to WAV TTA to WAV WV to WAV MOD to WAV

Another supported audio formats

• MPEG Audio Layer format (MP3)
• Windows Media Audio format (WMA)
• WAVE audio format (WAV)
• OGG file format (OGG)
• Real Audio format (RA, RMM, RAM, RAX, RPM, RM, RMVB)
• Audio Tracks format (CDA)
• Free Lossless Audio Codec format (FLAC)
• Monkey's Audio format (APE, APL)
• Advanced audio coding (AAC, M4A)
• Musepack formats (MPP, MPC, MP+)
• MPEG-4 international standard (MP4)
• OptimFROG (OFR)
• Speex (SPX)
• True Audio codec (TTA)
• WavPack (WV)
• MOD music (MOD)