Catch a wave - uncompressed digital audio

Karla Youngs on Wednesday 10 February 2010

We've just published a new advice document covering uncompressed audio file formats.

This short guide to Uncompressed Audio File Formats summarises the essential features of common uncompressed digital audio formats, focussing particularly on the WAV family.

Suitable for archiving and working with high quality audio, uncompressed files are the best quality medium for digital audio, and figure prominently in the audio workflow at many stages. Here we examine their comparative strengths and how they have evolved to fill different needs, and take a look at the latest developments, including Multichannel Broadcast Wave Format and iXML metadata.

Watch this space - further advice on the AAC audio and the MP4 media format will be published shortly!

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