Re: HELP needed understanding AIFF & FLAC "lossless" formats

Richard Crowley wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote ...
Richard Crowley wrote:
"Terry" wrote ...
I read that AIFF & FLAC formats can copy your music to a near perfect
duplicate without compressing or looseing any bits.
That is incorrect. Can you provide a reference where you read it?

AIFF is a *container* that may contain uncompressed
(i.e. bit-perfect) audio, OR one of several compressed
(lilely lossy, meaning not bit-perfect) codecs.
I think that's really AIFF-C, isn't it? The original .aiff format wasn't
a container file, was it?

Wikipedia identifies AIFF as a "Audio-Only Media Container"
along with AU and WAV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_format_%28digital%29

Yes, the compressed version is called "AIFF-C", but with so
much other incorrect information, it wasn't clear exactly what
the OP is inquiring about.

I thought it was a swanky .wav with byte order
reversed?

Leave it to Apple to come up with something different.
Frequently, it seems, just to be different.



Actually, I believe AIFF files predate WAV files by a few years.
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