Significant characteristics of audio files

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From Florida Digital Archive WAVE preservation Action Plan:

  • WAVE exhibits the following significant properties 1. They are the significant properties which the FDA intends to preserve when adopting migration policy in the future.
    • Content: Duration and number of channels.
    • Context: Title and creating application information.
    • Behavior: N/A
    • Structure: Channel relationship (channel mapping).
    • Appearance (Rendering): Sampling frequency and bit-depth.


property value component property definition constraint unit datatype
Duration Content
Number of channels Content positive integer
Channel mapping Structure
Sampling frequency Rendering
Bit depth Rendering the amount of data recorded for each pixel bits positive integer