Raw Sound playing

Question

Hello, I've been working for some time with image formats and i know that an image is an array of pixels (24- maybe 32 bits long). The question is: what is the way a sound file is represented? To be honest i'm not even sure what i should be googling for. Also i would be interested how do you use the data, i mean actually playing the sounds in the file. For an image file you have all sorts of abstract devices to draw an image on(Graphics:java,c#, HDC:cpp(win32), etc.) .I hope i have been clear enough.

Answer 1

Here's a dandy overview of how .wav is stored. I found it by typing "wave file format" into google.

http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/wavefiles.html