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Waveform Audio File Format

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The Waveform Audio File Format is an audio file format[1].

Waveform Audio File Format

Summary

Waveform Audio File Format is an audio file format[1]. It draws 522 Wikipedia views per month (audio_file_format category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Waveform Audio File Format's image is recorded as AudacityWAV.png[3].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's instance of is recorded as audio file format[4].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's instance of is recorded as digital container format[5].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's based on is recorded as Resource Interchange File Format[6].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's developer is recorded as IBM[7].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's developer is recorded as Microsoft[8].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13621427d[9].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's Commons category is recorded as Waveform audio format[10].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's has part is recorded as MP3[11].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's has part is recorded as Dolby Digital[12].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's has part is recorded as Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding[13].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's has part is recorded as linear pulse-code modulation[14].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's has part is recorded as adaptive differential pulse-code modulation[15].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's has part is recorded as Master Quality Authenticated[16].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's has part is recorded as MPEG-1 Audio Layer II[17].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's publication date is recorded as +1991-08-00T00:00:00Z[18].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/086m_[19].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/audio/[20].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/synalysis/Grammars/master/wav.grammar[21].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/files/WAV.bt[22].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/files/WAVAdv.bt[23].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haypo/hachoir3/master/hachoir/parser/container/riff.py[24].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wader/fq/master/format/pcap/pcapng.go[25].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300312049[26].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's media type is recorded as audio/vnd.wave[27].

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Publication

Waveform Audio File Format's publication date is recorded as +1991-08-00T00:00:00Z[18].

Why It Matters

Waveform Audio File Format draws 522 Wikipedia views per month (audio_file_format category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved . apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca. www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . RFC 2361: WAVE and AVI Codec Registries. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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