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Summary

Name Audio Interchange File Format
Version 1.3
Other names  
Identifiers PUID:  x-fmt/135
Family  
Classification Audio
Disclosure  
Description The Audio Interchange File Format (Audio IFF) was developed by Apple Computer, Inc., and provides a standard for storing sampled sounds. The format allows for the storage of monaural or multichannel sampled sounds at a variety of sample rates and sample widths. Audio IFF was designed to serve primarily as an interchange format. Audio IFF conforms to the "EA IFF 85" Standard for Interchange Format Files developed by Electronic Arts. The audio data in a standard AIFF file is uncompressed pulse-code modulation (PCM). There is also a compressed variant of AIFF known as AIFF-C or AIFC, with various defined compression codecs. File specifications available at http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/documents/audioformats/aiff/Docs/AIFF-1.3.pdf This format is currently deprecated in favour of fmt/414 in order to remove a multiple identification conflict. Differences between version 1.2 and 1.3 relate to Apple II-specific application implementation. See the full specification for details.
Orientation Text
Byte order  
Related file formats None.
Technical Environment  
Released 04 Jan 1989
Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by Apple Computer, Inc.
Supported by None.
Source Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date 02 Aug 2005
Source description File format information supplied by NARA Information Services/Applied Research Division, The National Archives and Records Administration.
Last updated 25 Oct 2012
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