On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:59:25PM -0800, Todd Richmond wrote: > > IFF is not very programmer friendly. MS/IBM eliminated the IEEE floating > point numbers(ex. sample rate) and cleaned up CODEC handling/description > significantly to name a few changes. As with many standards, the IFF concept > was good, but the implementation was mediocre.
I see no differences between the programmer-friendlyness of AIFF and WAV. But rounding sample frequencies to integer Hertz values makes the WAV format unusable for a lot of scientific purposes where you need the exact sampling frequency (300 ... 500 Hz, precision 10^-5). Writing and reading the sampling frequency as 80 bit IEEE-854 takes something around 20 lines of code. Most of the code is endian handling. -- Frank Klemm _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
