At 10:14 PM 4/21/2004 -0400, Steven C. Barr wrote:

>Don't the bits on a CD actually represent some sort of pulse-code
>description
>of the digital waveform, as opposed to the actual waveform making up the
>music? If so, are .WAV files stored in such a way they use the same
>algorithms
>rather than being a representation of the signal values themselves?
>Steven C. Barr

Each point on the waveform is in a single, 16-bit sample. The 32 bits (one
sample for each of the two channels) in appropriate order are the digital
representation of the amplitude. Pulse-code modulation means that the
sample is represented as such a value - or such a pair for two channels.

The difference between the stream and the WAV is only the ordering of the
32 bits making up the pair of samples.


Mike
--
[log in to unmask]
http://www.mrichter.com/