Also known as: AIF, AIFC
Sampled Audio, big-endian
The Audio Interchangeable File Format files are digital audio files stored in the IFF format; the samples are stored in signed PCM. The header block is [AIFF], different subblocks are : [AUTH] The authors information; optional [COMM] This record stores information about the sampled data : OFFSET Count TYPE Description 0000h 1 word ??? number of channels ??? ??? number of instrument samples ??? 0002h 1 dword Sample length 0006h 1 dword lower frequency 000Ah 1 dword maximum frequency 000Dh 1 dword ??? [MARK] [NAME] The name of the instrument / sample [SSND] The stored sample data. Further information wanted. EXTENSION:AIF,IFF
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