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WAV is a lossless, no-compression audio file format. Often replaced by newer formats, WAV remains in use for convenience, widespread support, and as an intermediary format.

The format for storing sound in files developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM. Support for WAV files was built into Windows 95 making it the de facto standard for sound on PCs. WAV sound files end with a.wav extension and can be played by nearly all Windows applications that support sound.

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How to convert wav to ogg and mp3 using VBR

How to convert wav to ogg and to mp3 with VBR and excellent end quality? If possible, using soundconverter or ffmpeg. Incidentally, I tried to see whether soundconverter uses VBR and there is nothing about it in the GUI preferences, so it is not…
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How do I convert WAV to FLAC and FLAC to OGG?

How do I convert a Waveform Audio File (".wav") to the Free Lossless Audio Codec (".flac")? In addition, how do I convert Free Lossless Audio Codec (".flac") files to Ogg Vorbis (".ogg") files, for use on mobile devices? The requirement to convert…
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How to convert a wav to mp3 in audacity

I am trying to export a wav format file to an mp3 format in audacity, but when it's done exporting all that is does is make this screaching sound for about two seconds and then there is no sound at all. I have learned so much from frequent use of…
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How do I mount a .cue/.wav

I have a .cue file which points to a .flac How can I mount the image as if it were an audio CD? Is it necessary to decode the .flac file into .wav and edit the cue sheet to point to a .wav file instead (it currently points to the flac)? I want to…
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combine multiple audio files with slience between each audio file in sox

I have about 20 audio files(.wav) in a folder , this is how I combine this wave files sox *.wav output.wav I want to add delay or silence between each wave . I have tried pad , but it's just put the silence only at the start and end of output.wav…
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Clementine refuses to play m4a, wma and wav

I installed Clementine and I'm happy with it's user interface and certain features. Unfortunately, it refuses to play wma, wav and m4a files. As far as I know, I do have all the gstreamer plugins installed and the same files play well in Rythmbox,…
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How to use ffmpeg command to record the rtsp stream to wav

I know how to record the rtsp steam to aac, just like: ffmpeg -i rtsp://192.168.0.192/110 -acodec copy -t 5 -vn voice.aac But I don't know how to record the rtsp stream to wav. I have tried the below commands, but they can't work ffmpeg -i…
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How can I use Roland VS-2000 Wave converter on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

How do I use the Roland VS-2000 Wave Converter on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
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Mix down 5.1 AC3 to Stereo WAV?

I wonder if I can mix down a 5.1 AC3 file to Stereo WAV file, i.e. 6-channel > 2-channel. I'd like to know how to do this with via terminal with ffmpeg (or avconv, because it says ffmpeg is deprecated).
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Packet is too small ffmpeg converting wav to mp3

I continue to get this error when trying to convert a wav file to mp3 using ffmpeg. This is the command i'm running ffmpeg -i 11_22_40AM.wav -acodec mp3 11_22_40AM.mp3 And this is the error [gsm_ms @ 0x5567d18626c0] Packet is too small Error while…
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Does anyone know of a script that can convert a wav to a Grub beep script?

Does anyone know where a script would be that can convert a wav file into a Grub beep code? It'd be a great help! Thanks!
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Canberra-gtk-play "failed to play sound" for two wav files

I'm using canberra-gtk-play to play a number of wav files, but it doesn't work with two of the files that I downloaded from freesound.org. Other files work fine. I'm quite sure that I've got the right path, because everything is in the same folder…
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App to get audio file information like what mkvinfo does for mkv files

Does anyone know of an app that can get the file information of a file like flac and wav files? An app like mkvinfo but for audio files for flac and wav files? Thanks An example is below of what mkvinfo shows when you choose an mkv file (MKVInfo) +…
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Workaround for playing wav files

In Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10 by default when you click on a .wav file, Ubuntu opens the totem video app and plays the .wav file completely garbled. This is a known bug that has been outstanding for quite a while. What is a good work around? I'm…
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How to convert audio and change its quality bitrate?

I want to convert mp3/wav audio file into wav format with a specific bitrate quality of 16bit or any if possible. How can I convert this file as well as change its quality bitrate in ubuntu linux 18.04?
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