Audio
WAV files
Uncompressed audio, the usual format for recording and editing. A minute of CD-quality stereo takes about 10 MB.
- Full name
- Waveform Audio File Format
- Made by
- Microsoft and IBM
- Introduced
- 1991
- File extension
- .wav
- Compression
- Uncompressed
- Best for
- Recording, editing and audio apps that need raw sound
- Opens in
- Every audio app and operating system
- In FileFlip
- Opens and saves
Good at
- No quality loss
- Opens everywhere
Not so good at
- Very large files
- Limited support for tags such as artist and album
WAV in FileFlip
FileFlip opens WAV files and saves to WAV.
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