 
    WAV is just a package for audio data. When someone refers to MP3 to WAV in order to record CDs, is referring as a explicit type of WAV: The PCM-WAV, i.e. a WAV with uncompressed audio.

    A WAV file, therefore, can have any type of audio data that you have a driver for (Control Panel -> Multimedia -> Drivers). One of the possible drivers is, indeed, MP3, so you can have a WAV file with MP3 encoded audio inside.

    There are several ways to convert the inside data of a WAV file from format to format but a simple way is to use Sound Recorder (sndrec32.exe).

    You can also add a WAV casqued to a MP3 file. So you can play MP3 files with regular WAV players/editors. You can even have a MP3 encoded audio WAV playing as your startup/shutdown sound in Windows.

    This is a utility to REALLY convert MP3 to WAV (note, WAV with MP3 encoded audio inside, therefore not eligible to write CDs) as a demo of what you can do (Alpha or Intel).


    Command line:

>MP3TOWAV <infile.mp3> <outfile.wav>

    ... may fail with one or two weird formatted files.


Pedro Miguel Teixeira

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