What is a .WAV file?
WAV is an uncompressed, lossless audio format common in recording and editing.
- Did you know
- WAV was created jointly by Microsoft and IBM in 1991.
- WAV is a flavour of Microsoft’s RIFF container, storing its data in little-endian chunks each tagged with a four-letter code.
- Because the header records length in a 32-bit field, a standard WAV file cannot exceed roughly four gibibytes.
- On the web a .WAV file is served with the MIME type
audio/wav. - Analyser spots a .WAV file by its signature bytes
52 49 46 46- the "RIFF" container tag.
- What Analyser shows you
- Inspect the waveform, spectrogram, codec, bitrate, channels, and tags of MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG, and Opus audio.
- Open a .WAV file
- Drag a .WAV file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.