{
 "id": "sonic-foundry-wave-64",
 "name": "Sonic Foundry WAVE 64",
 "category": "audio",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "w64",
   "wav"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/951"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q27960118"
  ],
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   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "726966662e91cf11a5d628db04c10000",
    "notes": "Sonic Foundry WAVE 64"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Sonic Foundry WAVE 64",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "726966662e91cf11a5d628db04c10000{8}77617665f3acd311"
     }
    ]
   }
  ],
  "priority_over": [
   "fmt/2025"
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "W64 is a 64 bit WAV-like audio format created to overcome the 32 bit addressing limitations of conventional WAV.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "FFmpeg",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "license": "LGPL-2.1-or-later / GPL-2.0-or-later",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Awave Studio",
   "url": "https://www.fmjsoft.com/awavestudio.html#main",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "EZ CD Audio Converter",
   "url": "https://www.poikosoft.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Free Lossless Audio Codec",
   "url": "https://xiph.org/flac",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "3-clause BSD License / GNU General Public License, version 2.0 / GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "libsndfile",
   "url": "https://libsndfile.github.io/libsndfile/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q300915",
   "url": "https://www.foobar2000.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "freeware"
  },
  {
   "name": "Q3898244",
   "url": "https://MediaArea.net/MediaInfo",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "BSD licenses / GNU General Public License / GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Video Factory",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113584978",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Sony_Wave64",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/951",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/951",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q27960118",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27960118",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "converters",
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [
  "Sony Media WAVE 64"
 ],
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "flac-free-lossless-audio-codec-1-2-1",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.w64 out.flac",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "waveform-audio",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.w64 out.wav",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-1-2-audio-layer-3",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.w64 out.mp3",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "ogg",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.w64 out.ogg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-4-part-14",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.w64 out.mp4",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "matroska-1-4",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.w64 out.mkv",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "webm",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.w64 out.webm",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  }
 ],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}