WAV
Wav files are one of the most long standing formats for sound files. They can come in various levels of sound quality, but are usually somewhat higher quality than mp3s. Wav files are used for Windows system sounds on your computer, and often when a sound file is short, like a clip of dialogue from a movie, a wav file will be used because it sounds a little better than an mp3 (plus wav files are easier to write a player for than mp3 files, which take a special decoding algorithm). You can use free wav files to spice up your Windows by adding new sounds, such as movie wavs. Wav files can also be used in some kinds of newer cell phones in place of ordinary ring tones. Here are some tips to help you find a wealth of free wavs on the world wide web!
First of all, decide what kind of wavs you are looking for. Most wavs on the internet are of two kinds: sound effects, and movie wav files. Movie wav files are short clips of people saying things in movies. A lot of people use movie wavs to replace various system sounds and make their computer sound cooler. Free movie wavs can be downloaded from sites such as MovieWavs dot com and MovieSoundCentral dot com. You can also get sound effect wavs to replace your system sounds. The best way to find these is with a world wide web search using an internet search tool such as Yahoo or Google. Just search for 'wav sound effects' and you should find some large library sites with thousands of wav files for you to choose from.
Wav files are less frequently used for music, because the large file size makes even a single song download about fifty megabytes and up. However, some people put music in wav file format because the sound quality is somewhat better, so it is occasionally possible that you might find free music wav files on the world wide web. If you want to convert a wav to mp3 so it does not take up as much space and you can transfer it to other computers and devices easily, you need to get an wav to mp3 / mp3 to wav converter. You can find converter programs on a software site like Tucows, which has all kinds of sound software to change between formats and edit sound files. Good luck finding great wav files on the world wide web!
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