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File format standard for storing audio on PCs

Waveform Audio File Format is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers. The format was developed and published for the first time in 1991 by IBM and Microsoft. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows systems for uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: WAVA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Facilitating team-based data science: Lessons learned from the DSC-WAV projectInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages With HtmlThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Bcl-wav and the mitochondrial calcium uniporter drive gastrula morphogenesis in zebrafishCited 79 times
  5. Go sideways: Resource Interchange File FormatA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: RF64A closely related topic

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Symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Waka.

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