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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by magicalhippo on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:40AM (#24966231)
WAV is based on the RIFF[1] container format and supports various compression formats, so in that regard it is more like TIFF than BMP.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Form...

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by mook on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:23PM (#24973562)
BMP has the ability to hold compressed data too; for example they can hold JEPG and PNG compressed images. I don't think it has the ability to hold arbitrary data though.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dd183376(...

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by fogihujy on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:52AM (#24966647)
More like IFF than TIFF, though nowadays it's just "legacy" anyway.
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