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Format

Extensible Music Format

Summary

Name
Extensible Music Format
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/714
Format type
Audio
Description
Extensible Music Format (XMF) is a tree-based digital container format used to bundle music-oriented content, such as a MIDI file and optionally the sounds it uses, liner notes or other content grouped by language-codes.
File extensions
xmf, mxmf
Submitted by
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Relationships

Has lower priority than

Internal signatures

XMF

Description
BOF: XMF_ At this time the XMF signature does not distinguish between different XMF subtypes, with the exception of Mobile XMF.
Provenance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMF http://www.midi.org/techspecs/xmf/xmf.php

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
584D465F
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V88

    Release date
    27 September 2016
    • Updated

      eXtensible Music Format: Amended signature description.

  • V81

    Release date
    18 February 2015
    • Added format

      Extensible Music Format: Full entry added.

    • Added signature

      Extensible Music Format: New signature developed through PRONOM Research.