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The oldest document that defines the form of a Wave file is the
.I Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0
of August 1991.
.\" .SH REFERENCES
.\" .SS ESSENTIAL FILE FORMAT
.\" .TP
.\" .UR https://www.aelius.com/njh/wavemetatools/doc/riffmci.pdf
.\" Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0
.\" .UE
.\" The original definition of the
.\" .I RIFF
.\" container, the
.\" .I WAVE
.\" form, the original metadata facilites, and things like language, country and
.\" dialect enumerations.
.\" .TP
.SH REFERENCES
.SS Essential File Format
.TP
.B Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0. Microsoft Corporation, 1991.
The original definition of the
.I RIFF
container, the
.I WAVE
form, the original metadata facilites (like
.IR INFO " and " cue ),
and things like language, country and
dialect enumerations. This document also contains descriptions of certain
variations on the WAVE, such as
.I LIST wavl
and compressed WAVE files that are so rare in practice as to be virtually
non-existent.
.TP
.B ITU Recommendation BS.2088-1-2019 \- Long-form file format for the international exchange of audio programme mterials with metadata. ITU 2019.
Formalized the RF64 file format, ADM carrier chunks like
.IR axml
and
.IR chna .
Formally supercedes the previous standard for RF64,
.BR "EBU 3306 v1" .
One oddity with this standard is it defines the file header for an extended
WAVE file to be
.IR BW64 ,
but this is never seen in practice.
.TP
.B RFC 2361 \- WAVE and AVI Codec Registries. IETF Network Working Group, 1998.
Gives a throughly exhaustive list of all of the codecs that Microsoft had
assigned to vendor WAVE files as of 1998. At the time, numerous hardware
vendors, sound card and chip manufacturers, sound software developers and
others all provided their own slightly-different adaptive PCM codecs, linear
predictive compression codes, DCTs and other things, and Microsoft would issue
these vendors WAVE codec magic numbers. Almost all of these are no longer in
use, the only ones one ever encounters in the modern era are integer PCM
(0x01), floating-point PCM (0x03) and the extended format marker (0xFFFFFFFF).
There are over a hundred codecs assigned, however, a roll-call of failed
software and hardware brands.
.\" .UR https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2361
.\" RFC 2361
.\" .UE