Format
Notation Interchange File Format
Summary
- Name
- Notation Interchange File Format
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/vnd.music-niff
- PUID: fmt/974
- Format type
- Audio
- Description
- Notation Interchange File Format (NIFF) is a music notation file format used primarily for transferring music notation between different scorewriters.
- File extensions
-
nif - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
NIFF
- Description
- BOF: RIFX{4}NIFF C header file from format SDK: http://www.music-notation.info/niffsdk/niff.h
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
52494658{4}4E494646- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V88
- Release date
- 27 September 2016
-
Added format
Notation Interchange File Format: Full entry added.
-
Added signature
Notation Interchange File Format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.