ColdDesert77 t1_je3tg6b wrote
Reply to comment by turniphat in ELI5: If digital data is stored in 0s & 1s, how does the reader know how many of the digits to take into consideration? by distinct_oversight
> the specification
What's that?
aiusepsi t1_je4oway wrote
A document written by a human being which describes the format of the file.
It's basically an agreement between person writing software which writes that kind of file, and the person writing software which reads that kind of file.
psycotica0 t1_je4ovsd wrote
Did you click on it? It's the document that describes what makes a wav file a wav file so that programs that can read wav files can read it. It's essentially a description and some instructions for the programmers making the reading program and the writing program so they know they're making the same file that contains the same information.
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