| From: | John Mason |
| Date: | 10 Aug 99 at 22:53:48 |
| Subject: | Getting slightly off-topic (was Re: AHI the revenge!) |
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Paul Burkey wrote:
> > Unfortunately, loading one isn't quite so simple, since a wav can be 8, 16,
> > or 32bit (and apparently anything in between also), as well as mono/stereo
> > and can be compressed in numerous ways...
>
> I've been using Sound Forge XP (Windows app) to edit sound data lately
> and I
> noticed the WAV saving options are huge. I think WAV has become a little
> more like IFF where the IFF standard supports many different types of
> data.
> While IFF supports sound, graphics, palettes, anims, music etc. WAV is
> still
> only a sound format but it can contain many different types of sound
Does anyone know if there's a difference between normal WAV files and
RIFF-WAV files? I have one of these and it won't play with anything I've
tried (Play16, SongPlayer, etc). It almost seems like it's compressed in
some way.
John Mason -- ICQ 17931257
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