It’s such a Microsoft/IBM format. “Let’s use this structural wrapper format! And then just define a format inside one gigantic chunk inside it!”
When Apple had already created AIFF years before and actually used the structure of the wrapper to implement the metadata. And also adopted an open structural format that already existed on Amiga.
It is? Isn’t it just a raw PCM signal?
Yes but with a container wrapper specifying format, padding and where the frame chunks start and stop.
Two container wrappers. For maximum inefficiency.
It’s such a Microsoft/IBM format. “Let’s use this structural wrapper format! And then just define a format inside one gigantic chunk inside it!”
When Apple had already created AIFF years before and actually used the structure of the wrapper to implement the metadata. And also adopted an open structural format that already existed on Amiga.
The text file of audio
Yep, and the format is ancient and free to use now.