This format is very popular mainly on the Windows platform but also on other operating systems. It usually contains uncompressed data, but also supports a variety of compressed formats. Amadeus Pro only supports Wave files that are either uncompressed or compressed with the (lossy) ยต-Law or a-Law algorithms.
The Wave format supports markers and multichannel data. Amadeus Pro will try to do its best to map the multitrack structure of the document to the ones supported by the Wave format, but this may fail if your document contains too many different tracks.
Metadata (artwork, artist name, etc) are saved to Wave files by appending an ID3 tag at the end of the file. This is the method employed by iTunes and should not affect the readability of the resulting file by third-party software.
Due to the nature of the format, WAVE files are limited to 2GB in size. It is possible to encounter WAVE files that are between 2GB and 4GB in size. Such files do not comply to the official WAVE specifications and cannot be opened by every program supporting the WAVE format, this is why Amadeus Pro will refuse to create them. It is however able to open such files and to save them in other file formats.
