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RIFF-WAV

Although the whole naming convention ofRIFF-WAV is highly misleading, its most commonly referenced meaning is to define anMP3-encoded audio file that is stored usingWAV file format's headers, thus showing up as an .wav file rather than an .mp3 file.

As the compression level doesn't change, only the file headers change, when converting an MP3 file into an RIFF-WAV file, the only real advantage for the transition is that the tools that require WAV files as their input file format(and don't support MP3 files) can use these files. Most common example of such tool isVirtualDub, an open source video editor.

There are several tools available for MP3-to-RIFF-WAV / RIFF-WAV-to-MP3 conversion operations, but the most popular one must be the open source tool calledCDEx.

Note: It should be mentioned here that the term "RIFF-WAV" originally refers to theWAV file format itself, as the WAV conforms to theRIFF format specifications and has been called in various occassions as "RIFF-WAV". The "new meaning" described above has most likely born due the fact that several tools that allow converting MP3s to use WAV headers have described the process(most likely due lack of space in menu fields, so they've shortened the text "MP3 to MP3-encoded RIFF-WAV" to "MP3 to RIFF-WAV" or something..) as converting MP3s to RIFF-WAVs. Thus, the new de facto meaning for the term.

Synonyms

Resource Interchange File Format

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	CDex(Ad-supported) CDEx is a great freeware CD ripper. It comes bundled with LAME MP3 encoder and OGG Vorbis encoder. Along with EAC, this is possibly the best ripper out there.
	VirtualDub(Freeware) Extremely efficient video capture and processing program.This version is not the latest one, but this is the last version that has ASF support
	VirtualDubMod(Freeware) VirtualDubMod is a modified version of the excellent video handling tool, VirtualDub. VirtualDubMod adds support for MPEG-2, AC3, Ogg Vorbis and VBR MP3 to the original VirtualDub.
	Winamp Full(Freeware) Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows.
	Windows Media Player(Freeware) Windows Media Player is the official multimedia player from Microsoft. Player provides all the features of a modern media player.

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