wat does all dis mean when u try to open a small *.wav file using notepad.?

Question

wat does all dis mean when u open a small *.wav file using a notepad. wat r all dese charactors n unusual symbols. is there ny way to interpret them? can dese be converted to ny other simple understandable form. plz reply ur best. thnx

Answer 1

wav files are encoded by 'drawing' out the sound waves in 2d using bits (1s and 0s), including other information such as volume, wavelength, wave frequency, wave amplitude etc.
A wave player is needed to convert these digital signals into meaningful sound units.

Notepad just converts digital signals into characters. So basically its like a translator trying to translate a foreign language. If you've used an online translator you would know that what you get sometimes are sentences that don't make sense.

This method of 'conversion' from wav to notepad is not reversible, because important digital information is lost when in notepad form because it is unable to translate many signals.

Use a wave editor (Nero wav editor, iTunes), to see what a .wav file 'looks' like and how to edit it. If you are a good programmer, you can use an editor and find out how a wav editor makes sense of audio digital signals

Answer 2

This is what yous ee when you open any file that isn't a notepad file. What you see is the character representation of the other data that the file is made of. Example a wav file contains audio encoded right? When you open it with notepad, it assumes it is opening a text file and therefore it converts all the data in that file into its character form (according to ASCII). What you see is those characters. No matter what you do, you can't 'make sense' out of them because they're not supposed to be text files. The only thing you can do is open a wav file with an audio player.

Answer 3

you can't open a binary file (which is what a wav file is) in a text editor. Notepad simply displays text and not the contents of music files. You would need a binary editor and a lot of binary experience to interpret whats is being displayed, and it definately won't be the lyrics to the song in the wav file!

Answer 4

*.wav is a video file which can be open with a player like Windows Media Player or Winamp. Notepad opens document files with *.txt or *.doc extensions.

Answer 5

A .wav file is a sound file. It should be opened with Media Player or some other sound application. What you are seeing is the machine language that the PC uses to play the sound in the media player.

Answer 6

notepad cannot understand audio data.
you need to edit wav files with an audio editor:
nero wave edit
windows sound recorder
cakewalk sonar
sony sound forge
ableton live


If you change any of the characters in notepad, you will corrupt the wav file and it will not be able to play anywhere.

Answer 7

No way. The file is in a very special format that can only be understood by a program that deals with .wav files. The characters have no meaning whatsoever to anyhting else.

Answer 8

Notepad is a code editor. It usnderstands txt files. It open all other file type in "code". That's what all of those funny looking things are.

Answer 9

It means it was unable to convert your information to readable understandable words, rather misinterpretated it, simply you chose the wrong program to run the file, notepads are definitely the wrong program dawg. Just convert to .doc and use MS word. How? download a converter mayne; www.download.com and knoch yourself out.

Answer 10

dude...ya gotta use the right program...those are just random symbols put in place for the small bit of information that could even be opened by the notepad program.