Re: Aiff-C

On Apr 9, 2011, at 2:54 PM, dwdavedw wrote:

> For some reason logic is bouncing out Aiff files as AIFF-C? I don't see any preference for this. Any idea why? I'm bouncing out aiff stereo interleaved, no normalization, 44.1 realtime and offline, all coming out as AIFF-C. 
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abbreviated excerpt from the wikipedia -

The only difference between a standard AIFF file and an AIFF-C/sowt file is the byte order; there is no compression involved at all.[5]
Apple uses this new little-endian AIFF type as its standard on Mac OS X. When a file is imported to or exported from iTunes in "AIFF" format, it is actually AIFF-C/sowt that is being used. When audio from an audio CD disc is imported by dragging to the Mac OS X Desktop, the resulting file is also an AIFF-C/sowt. In all cases, Apple refers to the files simply as "AIFF", and uses the ".aiff" extension.
For the vast majority of users this technical situation is completely unnoticeable and irrelevant. The sound quality of standard AIFF and AIFF-C/sowt are identical, and the data can be converted back and forth without loss.
Note: As of Mac OS X version 10.4.9, the system will sometimes incorrectly display the AIFC icon for files with the .aif extension, whether or not the actual file format is AIFF or AIFF-C.


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