Format
Apple Core Audio Format
Summary
- Name
- Apple Core Audio Format
- Version
- 1.0
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/416
- Format type
- Audio
- Description
- Apple’s Core Audio Format is a file format for storing and manipulating digital audio data. It is fully supported by Core Audio APIs on Mac OS X v10.4 and later and on Mac OS X v10.3 with QuickTime 7 or later. CAF provides high performance and flexibility, and is scalable to future ultra-high resolution audio recording, editing, and playback. CAF files have several advantages over other standard audio file formats: • Unrestricted File Size • Safe and Efficient Recording • Support For Many Data Formats • Support For Many Types of Auxiliary Data • Support of Data Dependencies
- Release date
- 04 Jun 2005
- File extensions
-
caf - Submitted by
- Georgia Tech Research Institute / Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Developed by
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- Supported by
- Apple Computer, Inc.
Internal signatures
Apple Core Audio Format 1
- Description
- File type =”caff”, File version = 1, Flags = 0, Chunk type = “desc”
- Provenance
- https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MusicAudio/Reference/CAFSpec/CAF_intro/CAF_intro.html
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
636166660001000064657363- Endianness
- Big-endian
Changelog
-
V69
- Release date
- 19 July 2013
-
Added signature
Apple Core Audio Format: Signature provided by Georgia Technology Research Institute.
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V60
- Release date
- 11 June 2012
-
Added format
Apple Core Audio Format: Description information submitted by the National Archives and Records Administration. Partial entry added.