Format
NeXT/Sun sound
Summary
- Name
- NeXT/Sun sound
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: audio/basic
- PUID: x-fmt/139
- Format type
- Audio
- Description
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- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
au - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
NeXT/Sun sound
- Description
- Header comprises 6 4-byte elements: Magic number (.snd); header length; data length; encoding; sample rate; channels.
- Provenance
- http://soundfile.sapp.org/doc/NextFormat/
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
2E736E64000000{5}000000(01|02|03|04|05|06|07|17|18|19|1A|1B){4}000000- Endianness
- Big-endian
Changelog
-
V60
- Release date
- 11 June 2012
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Updated
Audio Interchange File Format 1.3: Version information updated to macth description.
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V58
- Release date
- 21 March 2012
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Added signature
NeXT/Sun sound: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.
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Updated
NeXT/Sun sound: Format name changed for greater accuracy and consistency.