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Wave file structure is very simple. The structure can be divided into 3
parts (chunks).
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First chunk: The first 4 bytes should be "RIFF". Then come 4 bytes,
which indicate the size of file. Then comes "WAVE".
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Second chunk: It starts with "fmt ". Then come 4 bytes showing the chefspec (2) Code Jam (3) conference (2) contest (3)
length of "fmt " chunk. Then come audio format, number of channels, Continuous Delivery (1) Continuous Integration (1) course (1) Eee (2)
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Third chunk: It is the audio data itself. As always 4 first bytes - name of Java (4) Javascript (1) jenkins (3) Knife (1) Linq (1) Lisp (4)
the chunk. 4 bytes after that - the length of the chunk in bytes. After that LiveRebel (1) makefile (1) Mercurial (1) Moles (1) MongoDB (1)

come samples itself. 2 * number_of_channels bytes each sample. MsSql (3) myself (3) MySql (1) PostgreSql (4) Rails (4)
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There can be also other chunks between the first and the third, but they
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are really not widely used. If you got interested in it, a very good article
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about "Wave file format" is on The Sonic Spot .

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Comparing 2 Audio (*.wav) Files
Structure Of *.wav Audio Files
Going to English

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So we have here an example. We see the first chunk (purple). It shows ►
► February (2)
the length of the file - 0x(00 00 08 24) = 0x824 = 2084 ►
► January (2)
Bytes should be read in reverse direction. First read byte has the
smallest rank!

You can check yourself: left channel sample #5 = 0xE734 and right one is
0xA623.

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