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Details for: Waveform Audio (WAVEFORMATEX)

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Signatures
External signatures File extension: wav
File extension: wave
Internal signatures
Name Waveform Audio (WAVEFORMATEX)
Description RIFF header, WAVE ID, Format chunk, chunk length GTE 18, wformat Tag not equal to decimal 65534 = 0xFFFE and Data chunk. Since DROID cannot currently handle inverted (i.e. not equal to) sequences, the wformat chunk is not expressed in this signature. For fmt/143 the wformat tag = 65534 = 0xFFFE, so this is handled by setting an appropriate identification priority.
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Maximum Offset 0
Byte order Big-endian
Value 52494646{4}57415645666D7420[!10]{21-*}64617461
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