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- From: dgc3@ellis.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas)
- Subject: Re: Question on AIFF format
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.190101.22751@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:01:01 GMT
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- In article <37064@cbmvax.commodore.com> chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS) writes:
- >Actually, AIFF is an Apple registered IFF FORM type. It is documented
- >in the Amiga Devices Rom Kernal Manual, and in many Apple documents. As
- >AIFF is a subset of IFF, it wouldn't be correct to say that's it's more
- >flexible. It would, however be safe to say that AIFF is more flexible
- >than 8SVX, the predominant Amiga 8-bit sampling format, mainly because
- >AIFF can describe non-8-bit samples.
-
- Okay, I don't have the RKM, but I do have the AIFF 1.3 (January 4,
- 1989) specsheet from Apple. I know that the AIFF format is very
- similar to 8SVX, but the IFF documentation I have implies that proper
- IFF FORMs must contain a 'BODY' chunk -- which AIFF doesn't. (It uses
- the 'SSND' instead, which is identical in structure to 'BODY'.) Did I
- misunderstand the IFF specification, or is it a new policy that FORMs
- need not contain 'BODY' chunks?
-
- Thanks for clearing this up.
-
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