WAV Audio File Format

In spite of their large size, uncompressed WAV audio files are sometimes used by some radio broadcasters, especially those that have adopted the tapeless system.

Audio CDs do not use WAV as their sound format, using instead Red Book audio. The commonality is that both audio CDs and WAV files have the audio data encoded in PCM. WAV is a data file format for computer use that can't be understood by CD players directly. To record WAV audio files to an Audio CD the file headers must be stripped and the remaining PCM data written directly to the disc as individual tracks with zero padding added to match the CD's sector size.

Both WAVs and AIFFs are compatible with Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The format takes into account some differences of the Intel CPU such as little-endian byte order. The RIFF format acts as a “wrapper” for various audio compression codecs.

Uncompressed WAV audio files are quite large in size. WAV audio file consists of three chunks of information: The RIFF chunk which identifies the file as a WAV audio file, The FORMAT chunk which identifies parameters such as sample rate and the DATA chunk which contains the actual data samples.

NoteBurner WAV Audio Converter

Since NoteBurner WAV Audio Converter uses virtual burning technology, media player like iTunes, Windows Media Player or Real Player, or audio editing program like Adobe Audition, is required to co-work with the program to complete the converting. Basically, NoteBurner WAV Audio Converter is able to convert all types of audio files that can be played by your media players, such as converting M4A to MP3 and WMA.

NoteBurner WAV Audio Converter can preserve MP3 ID3 tag, containing Artist name, Song title, Year and Genre of the current audio file. The latest version of NoteBurner can also preserve album name and album art to the converted audio files.

Audio professional, musicians and audiophiles are fond of WAV audio because of its audio fidelity. The raw WAV audio file is excellent for editing and audition. Nonetheless, WAV audio files would be inconvenient to transfer and share due to the large file size. Converting WAV audio to MP3 is a good idea to deal with the problem. With NoteBurner Audio Converter, you can now easily convert WAV audio to MP3 and WMA.

NoteBurner WAV Audio Converter is a versatile WAV to MP3 Converter. The WAV Audio Converter is compatible with iTunes, WMP 10, Real Player, Adobe Audition (Cool Edit) and many other audio players and audio editors.

NoteBurner WAV Audio Converter applies virtual CD burning technology to simulate the burning and ripping process. By doing so it converts DRM protected audio files, such as m4p, m4a, m4b, wma and audio book, and unprotected audio, such as wma, mp3, wav, rax, mp4, ra, snd, aac, ogg, aa and aif, etc. to mp3, wav and wma.