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- From: ags@scs.carleton.ca (Alexander G. M. Smith)
- Subject: Re: .aiff files?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.013818.3596@cunews.carleton.ca>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <crystal.715220656@glia>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:38:18 GMT
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- In article <crystal.715220656@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
- >In my travels through FTP land I discovered some .aiff files that are
- >apparently samples.
-
- If you check out the new (AmigaDOS 2.0) Amiga ROM Kernel Reference
- Manual: Devices, you will find a list of all the known IFF formats. One
- of them is AIFF, a more generic audio format than the commonly used (on
- the Amiga) 8SVX. It has the advantage of doing n-bit samples in
- arbitrary numbers of channels. So, stereo 16 bit sound (CD quality) is
- within its capabilities, unlike 8SVX which is restricted to 8 bit sound
- samples.
-
- I don't know of any AIFF sample players for the Amiga. It shouldn't be
- to hard to write one, if you have the skills and time.
-
- - Alex
-