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Summary
Name	Audio Interchange File Format
Version	1.2
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/414
Family
Classification	Audio
Disclosure
Description	The Audio Interchange File Format (Audio IFF) 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 conforms to the " EA IFF 85" Standard for Interchange Format Files developed by Electronic Arts. Audio IFF is primarily an interchange format, although application designers should find it flexible enough to use as a data storage format as well. If an application does choose to use a different storage format, it should be able to convert to and from the format defined in this document. This will facilitate the sharing of sound data between applications. Audio IFF is the result of several meetings held with music developers over a period of ten months in 1987-88.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	Has priority over Interchange File Has priority over MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration
Source date	06 Nov 2012
Source description	Specification available at http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/classes/synth/AudioIFF1.2.1/AudioIFF1.2.1.html
Last updated	18 Feb 2019
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