convert apple recording formats to WAV format

Question

How to convert Apple recording formats to WAV format ? As said in Audio Queue Service Programming Guide, the apple recording formats are

• Apple Lossless
• iLBC
• IMA/ ADPCM
• u-Law and a-Law

So if i record an audio in any of these formats, how to convert it into WAV format?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can either use afconvert which is Apple's utility, or any number of quality sound programs out there can do this as well.

afconvert example: How do I use afconvert to convert all the files in a directory from wav to caf?

audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/