On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:38:09AM -0800, Todd Richmond wrote:
> For AIFF, you can review code from SOX(or other freeware) to get a very good
> idea how it is structured. It won't be a complete spec, but it is free and
> helpfull for people like me who think "the code is the most accurate
> documentation" :). AIFF/AIFC is very close to the RIFF format in MS .wav
> files.

I'd phrase it the other way round. RIFF is Microsoft's (and IBM's)
adaption of IFF for Windows 3.0 (they felt the need to create a
proprietary file format instead of using plain IFF), and WAV is to
RIFF what AIFF is to IFF.

-- Niklas Matthies
-- 
The future ain't what it used to be...
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