What is a Wave (.wav) file?
Answer:
A digitized sound file format for Microsoft Windows, which has ".WAV" as the filename extension. Most pre-mastering software will extract CD (CD-audio) tracks and write them to the hard disk as a Wav file. Be certain to have enough space on your hard drive when extracting songs from a CD to Wav files. For example, a 4-minute song when written as WAV file takes about 40-50 MB. This is a digital conversion, and when done properly will result in a perfect copy of the original song or audio track. Wav files can have various qualities of sound depending on how they are created or saved, but the most common is 44,100 Hz, 16-Bit, stereo (equivalent to audio tracks on CD).
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