Arny Krueger wrote:
All MP3s are effectively converted back to .wav before
we hear them. There's no way to avoid doing that.

"Gene Pool" wrote ...
wav is a file type architecture that comes in various format options.
If you are refering to the process of burning mp3's to standard cd
format then they are converted to wav format. There is no conversion
to .wav format if the playback device (either software or hardware)
can handle the mp3 format (or for that matter .sit, .mod, ,voc, etc ad
nauseum) directly. There is no upward conversion to wav format needed

Then what do YOU think is feeding the A/D converter that creates
the audio you hear? If you substitute "44K sample/sec, uncompressed,
fixed-point, 16-bit" for "wav" I see nothing wrong with Mr. Krueger's
explanation.

... Your little mp3 walkman would choke if it had to
convert all sounds to wav before outputting them.

Your little mp3 walkman (and everything else that produces audio)
feeds the A/D converter with the same data stream that is captured
in "wav files". How do YOU think it works?

The final result is merely sound not wav sound.

You'll have to define what YOU mean by "merely sound" and
"wav sound". Else this doesn't make sense.

(There may even be licensing fees associated with wav
files knowing Microsoft has a hand in it.)

Now that's just silly. Perhaps the whole post was meant to
be read as a jest.