DART XP Pro allows you to view, play and process uncompressed audio signals put in a standard Windows format called WAVE. Each wave file <*.wav> consists of a header, containing basic information about the recording (sampling rate, sampling resolution, number of channels etc.), followed by an unformatted string of bytes (for 8-bit sampling) or words (for 16-bit sampling) representing the values of consecutive signal samples. If a soundfile you wish to open is not a wave file the system will inform you of not being able to find the wave header.
In order to convert the raw PCM soundfile (i.e. a wave file deprived of its header) into a WAV file use the RAW to WAV command available from the File menu.
When renovating soundfiles, DART XP Pro creates special compressed detection files <*.det> which contain information about all system and/or operator interventions. Detection files can be opened and viewed in pretty much the same way as soundfiles.
In addition to dealing with individual files, DART XP Pro can handle groups of files (any set of sound and detection files forming a certain project) and audio trees (a set of soundfiles obtained by renovating the same archive recording).