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, and play Apple Core Audio (CAF) files such as iMessage voice messages, decoded on-device with FFmpeg where the browser cannot.
- 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.