Talk:Audio Interchange File Format

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Lossy/lossless

There is no mention that this file format is lossy or lossless. Not sure; but it might be a nice thing to add.

Someone added that it's lossless, but i'm removing that because really it's neither one. Lossy/lossless refers to the type of compression used. AIFF is uncompressed. Bgruber 22:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that we should remove lossy from the introduction. "...unlike the better-known lossy MP3 format, it is non-compressed." That seems a bit POV to me. Actually it's almost redundant. 68.50.209.182 (talk) 19:31, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

descriptive tags

do AIFF files contain meta data tags (e.g. ID3)? If yes, are they in the annotation chunk? Is their format standardized? Funkyj 00:45, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cover art and other metadata tags

Through research and experimentation with iTunes, I seem to have established that while of course, all the lossy formats,: AAC, MP3 and Apple Lossless support metadata extensively, including embedding of cover art, and in fact so does AIFF, being partially based on Deluxe Paint image AND Amiga sound formats, WAV does not and is just a little-endian Microsoft flat piece of PCM data with no metadata support other than the filename itself. iTunes does not allow dragging of images to the covert art area for these files, but does allow you to (with iTunes 7) pull the data into a separate on-disk cache of cover art (in itc format - a gzipped/encrypted pict or tiff by any chance?) from ITMS but it cannot add cover art into the wav file. If you want to keep cover art and song info with the data when you move it between libraries and use true uncompressed lossless audio, I seem to have established that despite smaller market share, you should use AIFF instead of WAV. If others agree, this article should say something like:

"AIFF supports metadata tags and embedding of cover art and lyrics, whereas WAV does not."

--81.105.251.160 18:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Um.. no. Just because the iTunes shit do not support metadata in Wav files does not mean Wav does not support metadata. Keep in mind that both Wav and AIFF stem from Electronic Art's IFF format - with little changed.--Anss123 17:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

When was format invented?

When was .AIFF introduced? --24.249.108.133 01:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not only that; while I appreciate the sowt info, there's more basic data missing from the article. I came here to find out more about maximum AIFF file length (2 GB). Valuable as the new info is, the article is still a stub vis a vis AIFF itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.100.244.88 (talk) 21:00, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

`Acronym'

The page remarks that `What meaning sowt may have as an acronym or abbreviation does not appear to be documented.' Erm... it looks fairly obvious. Is it not just `twos-complement', as some sort of pun on the changed bytesex? (not that I have a reference for this) NormanGray 20:28, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is now documented Boardhead (talk) 19:03, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AIFF on Mac OS X

The section AIFF on Mac OS X doesn't seem to be correct. Especially the claim "Apple uses this new little-endian AIFF type as its standard on Mac OS X" seems to be wrong. See <http://lists.apple.com/archives/coreaudio-api/2009/Mar/thrd4.html#00358> and Apple's non-reply, notably <http://lists.apple.com/archives/coreaudio-api/2009/Mar/msg00400.html>. Microbizz (talk) 17:18, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]