* AIFF – standard audio file format used by Apple.

It is an application of the Resource Interchange File Format ( RIFF ) bitstream format method for storing data in " chunks ", and thus is also close to the 8SVX and the AIFF format used on Amiga and Macintosh computers, respectively.

Apple Computer's AIFF is a big endian audio file format developed from IFF.

Audio Interchange File Format ( AIFF ) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices.

Standard AIFF is a leading format ( along with SDII and WAV ) used by professional-level audio and video applications, and unlike the better-known lossy MP3 format, it is non-compressed ( which aids rapid streaming of multiple audio files from disk to the application ), and lossless.

The file extension for the standard AIFF format is. aiff or. aif.

With the development of the Mac OS X operating system, Apple created a new type of AIFF which is, in effect, an alternative little-endian byte order format.

When a file is imported to or exported from iTunes in " AIFF " format, it is actually AIFF-C / sowt that is being used.

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.

Apple has also created another recent extension to the AIFF format in the form of Apple Loops used by GarageBand and Logic Audio, which allows the inclusion of data for pitch and tempo shifting by an application in the more common variety, and MIDI-sequence data and references to GarageBand playback instruments in another variety.

These included the ability to create custom chords for Smart Instruments, support for 3 / 4 and 6 / 8 time signatures, and exporting in AAC or AIFF format.

These other lossless codecs, such as FLAC and Shorten, are not natively supported in Apple's iTunes software, either in desktop operating systems ( Mac OS or Windows ) or iOS devices, so users of iTunes software who want to use a lossless format which allows the addition of metadata ( unlike WAV / AIFF or other PCM-type formats, where metadata is usually ignored ) have to use ALAC.

FourCC is a system of data format identification used in some platform-independent multimedia containers, such as AIFF and RIFF.

This IFF was adopted by a number of developers including Apple for AIFF files and Microsoft for RIFF files ( which were used as the basis for the AVI and WAV file format ).

Audio that is not in the native AIFF file format needs rendering before it can be played back.

* On PCs, the term PCM and LPCM often refer to the format used in WAV ( defined in 1991 ) and AIFF audio container formats ( defined in 1988 ).

The video project is typically sent from Final Cut Pro to Compressor, where it can be converted into the DVD MPEG-2 format with Dolby Digital ( ac3 ) or AIFF sound.

* AIFF ( IFF file format, widely used on Mac OS platform )

While data reduction ( compression, be it lossy or lossless ) is a main goal of transform coding, it also allows other goals: one may represent data more accurately for the original amount of space – for example, in principle, if one starts with an analog or high-resolution digital master, an MP3 file of a given size should provide a better representation than a raw uncompressed audio in WAV or AIFF file of the same size.

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.

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.

An AIFF file is divided into a number of chunks.

Due to the codec not being ported, it is incapable of playing Apple Lossless and AIFF audio files.

The All India Football Federation ( AIFF ) () is the organisation which manages the game of association football in India.

Available for both 68k and PPC based Macs running System 7. 0. 1 or later, it supported the embedding of a number of multimedia formats into web pages, including AVI and QuickTime formatted video and AIFF and WAV formatted audio.

Apple uses this new little-endian AIFF type as its standard on Mac OS X.

All traditional AIFF and AIFF-C files continue to work normally on Mac OS X ( including on the new Intel-based hardware ), and many third-party audio applications as well as hardware continue to use the standard AIFF big-endian byte order.

Absynth relies on user-based waveforms ; either drawn directly, by manipulation of a sound spectrum, or else extracted from a WAV or AIFF file.

** Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV / WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus ( AAC +), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( APE ), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC / Musepack / Mpeg +, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD ( Amiga Module ), XM, NSF ( NES Sound Format ), SPC ( SNES ), GYM ( Genesis ), SID ( Commodore 64 ), Adlib, YM ( Atari ST ), ADPCM ( Nintendo GameCube ), and CDDA.

* AIFF ( a big-endian derivative of IFF, originally from Apple )

Because the AIFF architecture has no provision for alternative byte order, Apple used the existing AIFF-C compression architecture, and created a " pseudo-compressed " codec called sowt ( twos spelled backwards ).

The basic format of the DIOCS statement is as follows: anylabel is any symbolic label ; ;

There is no use at all in trying to follow it dance by dance and title by title, for it has a kind of nonstop format, and moves along in an admirable continuity that demands no pauses for identification.

The piece is structured into five sections, which culminate in a loose ABA format.

The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.

One benefit is that the statistical moment calculations can be carried out to arbitrary accuracy such that the computations can be tuned to the precision of, e. g., the data storage format or the original measurement hardware.

They are also thought to have pioneered the modern alto format of viola, in contrast to older tenor violas, but this stating is not correct since Gasparo made violas from altos of 39 to tenors of 44, 7 cm.

Here again it is not anything like a legislative commission sitting down to discuss the pros and cons and drafting proposals, but the format is that of a trial, voting yes or no after a clash of speeches and such.

Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

Electron software is predominantly archived in the UEF file format.

An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system.

It can be a raw bitstream, but it is usually a container format or an audio data format with defined storage layer.

It is important to distinguish between a file format and an audio codec.

A codec performs the encoding and decoding of the raw audio data while the data itself is stored in a file with a specific audio file format.

There is one major uncompressed audio format, PCM, which is usually stored in a. wav file on Windows or in a. aiff file on Mac OS.

The WAV format is based on the Resource Interchange File Format ( RIFF ), which is similar to IFF.

BWF ( Broadcast Wave Format ) is a standard audio format created by the European Broadcasting Union as a successor to WAV.

This is the primary recording format used in many professional audio workstations in the television and film industry.

The popular MP3 format is probably the best-known example, but the AAC format found on the iTunes Music Store is also common.