785 Waveform Audio (WAVEFORMATEX) WAVE Audio Waveform Audio (WAVEFORMATEX) is an extended version of the Waveform Audio file format, and was developed by Microsoft. It has superseded the Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT). Text Little-endian (Intel) 1 Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives 01 Feb 2007 31 Oct 2022 audio/x-wav MIME fmt/142 PUID wav File extension wave File extension 607 Waveform Audio (WAVEFORMATEX) RIFF header, WAVE ID, Format chunk, chunk length GTE 18, wformat Tag not equal to decimal 65534 = 0xFFFE and Data chunk. Since DROID cannot currently handle inverted (i.e. not equal to) sequences, the wformat chunk is not expressed in this signature. For fmt/143 the wformat tag = 65534 = 0xFFFE, so this is handled by setting an appropriate identification priority. 1 Absolute from BOF 0 0 Big-endian 52494646{4}57415645666D7420[!10]{21-*}64617461 Has lower priority than 786 Waveform Audio (WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE) Has lower priority than 1502 Broadcast WAVE Has lower priority than 1503 Broadcast WAVE Has lower priority than 1505 Broadcast WAVE Has lower priority than 1506 Broadcast WAVE Has lower priority than 1507 Broadcast WAVE Has priority over 654 Waveform Audio Is previous version of 786 Waveform Audio (WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE) Is subsequent version of 654 Waveform Audio Is subsequent version of 784 Waveform Audio (PCMWAVEFORMAT) Is subtype of 654 Waveform Audio