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    This document discusses the structure of *.wav audio files. It is divided into three parts or chunks: 1) The first chunk contains identification information like "RIFF" and the file size. 2) The second chunk contains format information like audio format, number of channels, sample rate. 3) The third chunk contains the audio data itself, with samples for each channel. There can be other optional chunks between the first and third, but the three core chunks are consistently used to store identification, format, and audio data in *.wav files.

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    This document discusses the structure of *.wav audio files. It is divided into three parts or chunks: 1) The first chunk contains identification information like "RIFF" and the file size. 2) The second chunk contains format information like audio format, number of channels, sample rate. 3) The third chunk contains the audio data itself, with samples for each channel. There can be other optional chunks between the first and third, but the three core chunks are consistently used to store identification, format, and audio data in *.wav files.

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    This document discusses the structure of *.wav audio files. It is divided into three parts or chunks: 1) The first chunk contains identification information like "RIFF" and the file size. 2) The second chunk contains format information like audio format, number of channels, sample rate. 3) The third chunk contains the audio data itself, with samples for each channel. There can be other optional chunks between the first and third, but the three core chunks are consistently used to store identification, format, and audio data in *.wav files.

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    Wave file structure is very simple. The structure can be divided into 3
    parts (chunks).
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    First chunk: The first 4 bytes should be "RIFF". Then come 4 bytes,
    which indicate the size of file. Then comes "WAVE".
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    Second chunk: It starts with "fmt ". Then come 4 bytes showing the chefspec (2) Code Jam (3) conference (2) contest (3)
    length of "fmt " chunk. Then come audio format, number of channels, Continuous Delivery (1) Continuous Integration (1) course (1) Eee (2)
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    Third chunk: It is the audio data itself. As always 4 first bytes - name of Java (4) Javascript (1) jenkins (3) Knife (1) Linq (1) Lisp (4)
    the chunk. 4 bytes after that - the length of the chunk in bytes. After that LiveRebel (1) makefile (1) Mercurial (1) Moles (1) MongoDB (1)

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    There can be also other chunks between the first and the third, but they
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    So we have here an example. We see the first chunk (purple). It shows ►
    ► February (2)
    the length of the file - 0x(00 00 08 24) = 0x824 = 2084 ►
    ► January (2)
    Bytes should be read in reverse direction. First read byte has the
    smallest rank!

    You can check yourself: left channel sample #5 = 0xE734 and right one is
    0xA623.

    Continued there...

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