for the record, samplitude v8.1 adds chunks in the headers...
you guys do know that command/ shntool strip *.wav gets rid of all of that, right..? (hopefully the srip comand will show up in xact for windows ('cos that is a terrific shntool frontend, and all in one proggie)...
the ability to strip the wav files of this extra junk is essential to me, 'cos the program (samp v8.1) i use adds this stuff; aside from editing, i can track and split on sector boundaries, but each of the tracks comes out with shntool len WAV output of --e which means there is [e]xtra data in the header. this is also why the original md5s dont match anymore - the shntool md5s are the same, so no wav data is being changed, but samplitude puts its own info in the header, which affects the md5 signature of the files. i assume this is what these other programs, and devices, are doing, too...