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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 2,717 Wikipedia views per month (audio_file_format category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Waveform Audio File Format's instance of is recorded as audio file format[3].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's instance of is recorded as digital container format[4].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's based on is recorded as Resource Interchange File Format[5].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's developer is recorded as IBM[6].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's developer is recorded as Microsoft[7].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's Commons category is recorded as Waveform audio format[8].
  • Waveform Audio File Format comprises MP3[9].
  • Waveform Audio File Format comprises Dolby Digital[10].
  • Waveform Audio File Format comprises Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding[11].
  • Waveform Audio File Format comprises linear pulse-code modulation[12].
  • Waveform Audio File Format comprises adaptive differential pulse-code modulation[13].
  • Waveform Audio File Format comprises Master Quality Authenticated[14].
  • Waveform Audio File Format comprises MPEG-1 Audio Layer II[15].
  • Waveform Audio File Format was released on August 1991[16].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/audio/[17].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/synalysis/Grammars/master/wav.grammar[18].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/files/WAV.bt[19].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/files/WAVAdv.bt[20].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haypo/hachoir3/master/hachoir/parser/container/riff.py[21].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's described at URL is recorded as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wader/fq/master/format/pcap/pcapng.go[22].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's media type is recorded as audio/vnd.wave[23].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's media type is recorded as audio/wav[24].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's media type is recorded as audio/wave[25].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's media type is recorded as audio/x-wav[26].
  • Waveform Audio File Format's media type is recorded as audio/x-pn-wav[27].

Body

Publication

Waveform Audio File Format was published on August 1991[16].

Why It Matters

Waveform Audio File Format draws 2,717 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] ↑ . apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved . apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca. www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . RFC 2361: WAVE and AVI Codec Registries. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. 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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