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Waveform
Filename extension.wav
Internet media typeaudio/wav
audio/wave
audio/x-wav.
Type codeWAVE
Uniform Type Identifiercom.microsoft.waveform-​audio
Developed byMicrosoft & IBM
Type of formataudio file
Extended fromRIFF

WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application 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. It is the main format used on Windows systems for raw and typically uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) format.