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Jim Lesurf[_3_] Jim Lesurf[_3_] is offline
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Default converting WAV file to MP3

In article , Don Pearce
wrote:

All formats contain metadata. And you can't necessarily determine a file
type from its suffix. WAV is a wrapper that can contain all manner of
audio. 16-bit PCM is just one of a lengthy list.


Indeed. I'm not quite sure what most DAPs would make of, say, the
'broadcast' Wave files one of my old recorders makes. Not the usual sort of
'tagging' I suspect people have adopted for home audio. :-)

Jim

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