Format
Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT)
Summary
- Name
- Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT)
- Identifiers
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- MIME: audio/x-wav
- PUID: fmt/141
- Format type
- Audio
- Family
- WAVE
- Description
- Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT) is the standard Waveform Audio file format, developed by Microsoft. It has now been superseded by Waveform Audio (WAVEFORMATEX), an extended version.
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
wav,wave - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
- Has priority over
- Is previous version of
- Is subtype of
Internal signatures
Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT)
- Description
- RIFF header, WAVE ID, Format chunk, chunk length=16=0x10000000, wformat Tag =1=0x0100 and Data chunk
- Provenance
- WAVE PCM soundfile format https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/422/projects/WaveFormat/
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
52494646{4}57415645666D7420100000000100{14-*}64617461- Endianness
- Big-endian
Changelog
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V105
- Release date
- 29 June 2022
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Updated
Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT): Updated extension to include .wave. Submitted by Preservica.
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V88
- Release date
- 27 September 2016
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Updated
Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT): Adjusted signature due to findings from Archives New Zealand.
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V63
- Release date
- 29 August 2012
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Updated
Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT): Minor correction to previous signature.
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V62
- Release date
- 28 August 2012
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Updated
Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT): Existing signature refined through PRONOM Research.
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V59
- Release date
- 21 March 2012
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Updated
Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT): Priority set to avoid multiple identification with Waveform Audio Format.
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V58
- Release date
- 21 March 2012
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Added signature
Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT): Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.