Esther, that is very very helpful. thanks, Stacey and GEB dog Chesley On Sep 6, 2012, at 6:41 PM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Stacey, > > AIFF files are uncompressed audio files. The acronym stands for "Audio > Interchange File Format", and they are the Mac equivalent of WAV > files. The sound quality is equivalent, but the internal formatting > and header structure differs between AIFF and WAV files. All your > system sound files on the Mac are some form of AIFF or compressed AIFF > (with ".caf" extension name) file. Any simple, real-time streaming > audio recorder on your Mac or iOS device, including Voice Memos, > records to AIFF format. Producing a compressed format such as MP3 or > AAC requires that an app store or buffer the audio contents in some > way, and then perform a conversion in an intermediate step with an > encoding CODEC to transform the uncompressed recording as the app is > running. > > Your Mac will see the sound files from commercial audio CDs as AIFF > files. On a Windows system, these would be seen as WAV files. There > are some differences in the kind and level of metadata in the headers > of these two formats when used by third-party apps, if you were > broadcasting, for example, but as far as audio content, just think of > AIFF files as the standard for Macs, and the counterpart to WAV files > on Windows. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Sep 6, 10:29 am, Stacey Robinson <stacey...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> Hi all, >> Can someone tell me what AIFF files are? >> Thanks, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
