Apple iTunes also add support to WAV files.
WAV is a main audio format for Windows OS, all devices or gadgets running Windows OS support to broadcast files in this format. When an audio file is compressed with FLAC format, the file size will be reduced to around 50-60% percent of the original file size while uncompressed WAV files just represent the uncompressed audio data as is.Ĭompatibility: FLAC is not as widely supported as WAV. Though files compressed by FLAC will be decreased to half of its original size but decompress the FLAC file will get an identical copy of the original audio data.įile Size: WAV audio files will be larger than FLAC files. Specifically, WAV format can be used on Windows system for represent typically uncompressed audio. They are able to maintain the original file quality. Quality: WAV is an uncompressed lossless audio format and FLAC is a compressed lossless audio format. Let’s have a more detailed analysis of these files through the comparison as follows:
Both WAV and FLAC are capable of retaining the lossless quality. WAV Versus FLACįree Lossless Audio Codec or FLAC was developed by Erik de Castro Lopo, Josh Coalson and Xiph.Org Foundation and was initially released in 2001. This also makes it limited to share WAV files over the Internet. Editing and manipulating this type of file is also easy as it doesn’t require any encoding or decoding.Ĭons: Large size will be a concern if you don’t have enough space on your devices. It’s supported on both Windows and Macintosh OS so its playback on these platforms is without any difficulties. Pros: Uncompressed WAV files have the lossless audio quality. Files larger than this limit won’t be supported to encode in this format. The maximum file size of WAV files is up to 4GB.WAV is a derivate of RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format), a generic container format for storing data of sound and video in tagged chunks.A WAV file does not only contain the audio part, it also has information about the file including the mono or stereo property, bit depth, sample rate and number of tracks.Although WAV is commonly uncompressed, it still supports lossy compression and the Audio Compression Manager can be used to achieve that.
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