![]() ![]() Open up the program once installed and you can just drag and drop the WAV file onto the left pane: The difference is what settings the developers used when building the executable, it’s probably the case that all Windows versions will work on your PC. This is a good generic choice, though I grabbed the 64bit Windows 11 version for best performance. There are a number of Windows versions, but generally the version it suggests is the one you’ll want: The first step is ensuring that you choose the right version of OcenAudio. You can grab a copy for yourself (for Mac, PC, or even Linux) at READING A WAV AUDIO FILE IN OCENAUDIO FOR PC For this demo, I’m going to use the open source (e.g., free to download and use) program OcenAudio. Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to do that, ranging from commercial format conversion programs to free open source apps. Suffice to say that your Mom could get software that would let her play WAV files, but it’s likely going to be 100x easier for you to translate the audio file and just send her a plain old MP3 file instead. I know, way more than you wanted to know. Macs prefer AAC – “Advanced Audio Codec” – designed to be the successor of MP3, but not as well supported. Neither, however, are particularly well supported over on the Apple MacOS side. ![]() WAV – “Waveform Audio File Format” – is also lossless and is a common output audio format for Windows recording software, voice memos, and similar. No surprise, FLAC files are bigger than MP3 files. FLAC stands for “free lossless audio codec” and is a good choice if you’re an audiophile and don’t want to lose a single bit of data during audio file compression. Buy and download some music and it’ll likely show up in MP3 format for just this reason.īut the PC world – and in particular Windows Media Player – also supports two other big formats: FLAC and WAV. ![]() It also compresses the files, which is a nice benefit in most use cases too. That’s one reason why MP3 (more properly “Motion Pictures Expert Group – level 3”) has become such a popular audio and music file format. There are a remarkable number of audio formats and while things have improved over the last few years, there are definitely audio file formats that work on one platform but are unknown on others. ![]()
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