Re: [ARSCLIST] Converting Real Audio to wav

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Converting Real Audio to wav
From: Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:33:41 -0800
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Joel Eaton wrote:

Jim Sam wrote:
a non-proprietary format, such as wav?
that's not strictly true now is it

??

WAV is not a format but an envelope into which audio of various formats can be inserted. In common parlance, it is used as though a PCM format.

So technically the statement is not correct, because WAV is not defined as a format, not because it is proprietary.

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