[LAU] Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 38, Issue 22

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Apr 20 19:48:25 UTC 2010


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Shani Hadiyanto Pribadi
<shanipribadi at gmx.net> wrote:

> Im curious, why does wave format need to store the chunk size, does it
> have any advantages?

this is a basic property of all "chunked" formats (WAV, AIFF, W64,
CAF, RF64 and several others). its just how they work: a set of "self
contained" chunks within the file, each of which contains a
description of its own size.


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