Other details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Interchange_File_Format
including some interesting bits about the newer AIFF under OSX which is
internally encoded differently than the AIFF of old. AIFF goes back to
the Mac/Amiga days (1988 - MacOS System 5/6 anyone?), back when PCs
still thought audio was some superfluous extra but you could buy and
install an audio card if you really wanted to bother.
CB
On 9/6/12 9:57 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote:
Esther, that is very very helpful. thanks,
Stacey and GEB dog Chesley
On Sep 6, 2012, at 6:41 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Stacey,
AIFF files are uncompressed audio files. The acronym stands for "Audio
Interchange File Format", and they are the Mac equivalent of WAV
files. The sound quality is equivalent, but the internal formatting
and header structure differs between AIFF and WAV files. All your
system sound files on the Mac are some form of AIFF or compressed AIFF
(with ".caf" extension name) file. Any simple, real-time streaming
audio recorder on your Mac or iOS device, including Voice Memos,
records to AIFF format. Producing a compressed format such as MP3 or
AAC requires that an app store or buffer the audio contents in some
way, and then perform a conversion in an intermediate step with an
encoding CODEC to transform the uncompressed recording as the app is
running.
Your Mac will see the sound files from commercial audio CDs as AIFF
files. On a Windows system, these would be seen as WAV files. There
are some differences in the kind and level of metadata in the headers
of these two formats when used by third-party apps, if you were
broadcasting, for example, but as far as audio content, just think of
AIFF files as the standard for Macs, and the counterpart to WAV files
on Windows.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 6, 10:29 am, Stacey Robinson <stacey...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Hi all,
Can someone tell me what AIFF files are?
Thanks,
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