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.
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