Sample WAV 1MB File
WAV — uncompressed PCM audio
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Download 1MB WAV1 MBTestFile-wav-1mb.wav
File details
| Format | WAV |
| Extension | .wav |
| MIME type | audio/wav |
| Size | 1 MB |
| Exact bytes | 1,048,576 |
| Filename | TestFile-wav-1mb.wav |
| Format version | WAV / PCM — Microsoft RIFF Waveform Audio |
| Contents | 440 Hz sine tone, ~6 s; 44.1 kHz, 16-bit PCM, stereo; RIFF/WAV container; -6 dBFS peak |
| Encoding | PCM (wFormatTag=1); 44,100 Hz; 16-bit signed integer; stereo; 176,400 bytes/sec |
What is a 1MB WAV file useful for?
A 1 MB WAV at 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo provides approximately 6 seconds of uncompressed audio — the standard size for short sound effects, UI notification sounds, and audio test fixtures in game development and broadcast tooling. Use it to test that your audio processing pipeline handles raw PCM correctly, that loudness normalisation (EBU R128 or ReplayGain) is applied before streaming delivery, and that WAV-to-MP3 conversion preserves the tone frequency accurately.
What's inside this file?
Generated by ffmpeg. A 440 Hz sine tone approximately 6 seconds long at 44.1 kHz, 16-bit PCM, stereo. The data chunk contains approximately 529,200 interleaved 16-bit integer samples (264,600 per channel). Peak amplitude is set to -6 dBFS — half of full scale — leaving headroom for digital processing without clipping.
Download via curl
curl -L "http://localhost:8000/files/wav/TestFile-wav-1mb.wav" \ -o TestFile-wav-1mb.wav
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