A versatile DOS/Windows format using the RIFF format (chunk id is Wave). Wave supports a huge number of sub-formats, many of which are proprietary compression algorithms and information is not available. Some others not listed below are MPEG, GSM and G72x.

Filetype	&FB1 (Wave)
Channels	Any (only plays mono/stereo)
Rates	Any
Subformats	8-bit unsigned linear
	16-bit signed linear
	8-bit µ-law
	8-bit A-law
	4-bit Microsoft ADPCM
	n-bit IMA/DVI/Intel ADPCM (2-4 supported)
Annotation	All fields available

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