# Plea for WAV Support
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/plea-for-wav-support/13791
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 24, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/plea-for-wav-support/13791 "2012-08-24T07:31:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@rlevis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rlevis)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/plea-for-wav-support/13791/1 "2012-08-24T07:31:28Z")
[http://forums.mp3tag.de/lofiversion/index.php/t8328.html](http://forums.mp3tag.de/lofiversion/index.php/t8328.html)
As in this older discussion, I also would also like MP3Tag to support WAV fmt/LIST chunk tags. I would also want APEv2 tag support for WAV files.
Cheers.
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### Author:  [@Oblio](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oblio)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/plea-for-wav-support/13791/2 "2012-09-19T05:05:31Z")
Yes please, I guess if we keep on asking...
Now that _ **Foobar2000 supports wav file tagging** _ since V1.1.9 that's as close as it comes to being official maybe?
Other software that supports it -
dbPowerAmp
Jriver
Tag&Rename
Winamp?
iTunes?
others?
> [@Ross](#):
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> [http://forums.mp3tag.de/lofiversion/index.php/t8328.html](http://forums.mp3tag.de/lofiversion/index.php/t8328.html)
> As in this older discussion, I also would also like MP3Tag to support WAV fmt/LIST chunk tags. I would also want APEv2 tag support for WAV files.
>
> Cheers.
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### Author:  [@HansBKK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/HansBKK)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/plea-for-wav-support/13791/3 "2012-09-20T01:37:47Z")
Why not take advantage of a lossless format like FLAC?
Not trolling here I promise, I'm genuinely curious what advantage using WAV directly could hold; to me it's is just an intermediate format when it's necessary to edit the audio itself, not for metadata or archival storage.
I realize disk space is cheap but it's not free, and I can't say I've ever had an issue with decoding time, unless you're storing chunks that are hours long. . .
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### Author:  [@Oblio](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Oblio)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/plea-for-wav-support/13791/4 "2012-09-25T03:36:27Z")
There are some situations (e.g. some broadcasters) where wav is the only acceptable format (yes wav as opposed to bwav which is also used). I assume it is simpler for them to use wav for archiving just to avoid the conversion times, regardless of disk space cost.
It is also the most platform/OS/codec agnostic format. Sometimes you might want that.
The fact that more and more software is supporting it means there must be a demand. It has certainly been requested here more than once.