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Posted Mar 17, 2022 12:26 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: PCM by tialaramex
Parent article: Python finally offloads some batteries
> The actual Microsoft WAV format technically does lots more than this, but scarcely anybody bothers implementing any of that stuff, and I think that includes Python's wave. So we should admit that we don't want WAV we just wanted to store PCM data.
Yes, but... huge amounts of software accepts and produces WAV files. Much less accepts or produces PCM. It's an interchange format in that respect, like it or not...