UNDERSTANDING COMPUTER FILES
FILE EXTENSIONS AND FILE TYPES
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.MP4
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.WAV
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.JPEG
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Detailed explanation-1: -WAVE or WAV (waveform audio file format) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bit stream on PCs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced “wave") is an audio file format standard, developed by IBM and Microsoft, for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows systems for uncompressed audio.
Detailed explanation-3: -Audio editors describe WAV files as “lossless” because you don’t lose any part of your audio. As a result, WAV files objectively have better quality and provide more true and accurate audio clips. Better WAV vs MP3 quality comes with a tradeoff.
Detailed explanation-4: -An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression.