Why are all .WAV music files 1411kbps?

Question

Was told .WAV is better than Apple Lossless, which is what I use to use, but in burning songs to my computer in .WAV file format they are all exactly 1411kbps is that normal and is .WAV really better than Apple Lossless? Is there anything higher than 1411kbps?

Answer 1

Wav is the industry standard for uncompressed lossless audio. Yes 1,411kbps is the raw bit rate for a audio CD. All audio CDs that you will burn will come out as 1411kbps music files. A Wav file will fluctuate in size depending on the source material you are encoding. For example, (without getting into to much detail) an audio CD like what you buy in the stores, all have a maximum resolution of 16-bit 44,100HZ. Doing the math, when that is encoded into Wav it will give you a bit rate of 1,411kbps. But if I we're to rip audio of off of a DVD which has a resolution of 16-bit at a slightly higher sample rate of 48,000HZ I would get a Wav file that is abut 1,560kbps (Give or take) So It just depends on the native audio resolution of your source material.



Now Wav is better then Apple lossless, in terms of compatibility. Wav files are the lossless equivalent to a lossy Mp3 when it comes to being able to be played back on basically any software program, or device. But then again it isn't as good as some lossless audio codecs when it comes to compression. Flac for example, which is also known as "free lossless audio codec" is a lossless codec like Wav and Apple lossless, but has the benefit of being able to compress music files like Mp3's but unlike Mp3's, it still retains all of the digital information from the source material. (In your case, CDs)



Long story short. Then if Wav is lossless, and Apple lossless is lossless, and so is Flac, then which has better sound quality.??



The answer-----→ (ALL OF THEM) You see, lossless means exactly that. LOSSLESS. At no point is any digital information from the CD thrown out. All the 1s and 0s that make up the CD are retained 100% in→ ALL ← lossless audio codecs. If Apple lossless was working for you, and you had no problems with it, then I recommend that you stick with it. But if you want to use Wav, that's fine also.



All you need to know is that Mp3, AAC, Wma, and Ogg Vorbis are known as lossy codecs. They throw ot digital information from the CD, and have some varying audio quality standards. Hence the name lossy.



But Wav, Apple lossless, Wma lossless, and Flac, are all lossless. Which means they will all sound 100% identical to the CD, and to each other.



I hope this helps. This was the best way I could describe it, in laymen terms for you.

Answer 2

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Why are all .WAV music files 1411kbps?

Was told .WAV is better than Apple Lossless, which is what I use to use, but in burning songs to my computer in .WAV file format they are all exactly 1411kbps is that normal and is .WAV really better than Apple Lossless? Is there anything higher than 1411kbps?

Answer 3

It really depends on the file size. Just about any file can be sent as an attachment, but the reciever's Email client need to be able to handle the size, and some are limited to very small sizes. Gmail is one that can handle fairly large file sizes, but try and send as an attachment to see how it works on your own email first. (note: you can also try to convert the WAV to MP3, it will make the file size a lot smaller)