Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio file format

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio file format
From: Jaakko Prattala (Jaakko.Prattala_AT_helsinki.fi)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 06:40:50 EEST


On Monday 31 March 2003 13:16, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> 1.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft ADPCM, mono 44100
> Hz
>
>
> I thought WAVE was a format without compression? The duration of the files
> (when played by 'play') shows that this is not possible. So what is it?

ADPCM is a kind of a compression method.
That's all (I think) I know. Google is your friend:
92800 hits for adpcm :-)

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Jaakko Prättälä
Jaakko.Prattala_AT_Helsinki.FI


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