Format
Audio Interchange File Format (compressed)
Summary
- Name
- Audio Interchange File Format (compressed)
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: audio/x-aiff
- PUID: x-fmt/136
- Format type
- Audio
- Description
- The Audio Interchange File Format, Compressed (AIFF-C) provides a standard for storing uncompressed or compressed sampled sounds. The format can store monaural or multichannel sampled sounds in a range of sample rates and sample widths. The format is extensible to handle new compression types and application-specific data.
- Release date
- 26 Aug 1991
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
aifc - Submitted by
- The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
Audio Interchange File Format (Compressed)
- Description
- Starts like most IFF files (FORM) followed by four bytes that tell how many more bytes follow in the file followed by AIFC.
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute (Candidate Internal Signatures for File Formats in PRONOM Registry; 05/06/2010)
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
464F524D{4}41494643- Endianness
- Big-endian
Changelog
-
V62
- Release date
- 28 August 2012
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Updated
Audio Interchange File Format (Compressed): Description information submitted by the National Archives and Records Administration.
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V55
- Release date
- 4 January 2012
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Updated
Audio Interchange File Format (compressed): Priority information changed to avoid potential misidentification with Interchange File Format.
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V45
- Release date
- 6 December 2010
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Added signature
Audio Interchange File Format (compressed): Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.