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Audio Interchange File Format

An audio file format standard used for storing sound data.

The audio data in a standard AIFF file is uncompressed pulse-code modulation (PCM). AIFF is a leading format (along with SDII and WAV) used by professional-level audio and video applications, and unlike the better-known lossy MP3 format, it is non-compressed (which aids rapid streaming of multiple audio files from disk to the application), and lossless.

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Is it correct to assume that floating-point samples in a WAV or AIFF file will be normalized?

Say I have a program that reads a .WAV or .AIFF file, and the file's audio is encoded as floating-point sample-values. Is it correct for my program to assume that any well-formed (floating-point-based) .WAV or .AIFF file will contain sample values…
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AIFF-C file cannot be read with aifc module in python

I am trying to read a compressed .aiff file stored on my local directory. I get this; >>>import aifc >>>s = aifc.open('/Users/machinename/Desktop/folder/AudioTrack.aiff','r') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in …
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iOS: How to trim silence from start and end of .aif audio recording?

My app includes the ability for the user to record a brief message; I'd like to trim off any silence (or, to be more precise, any audio whose volume falls below a given threshold) from the beginning and end of the recording. I'm recording the audio…
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Any libraries that can parse ID3 chunks from aiff files?

I am learning about the AIFF format and according to wiki these files can contain an ID3 chunk. But most of tools I have tried so far do not seem to support aiff files. Are there any libraries (preferably java or C#) capable of parsing/reading ID3…
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Create mp3 previews from wav and aiff files

I would like to create a program that makes mp3s of the first 30 seconds of an aiff or wav file. I would also like to be able to choose location and length, such as the audio between 2:12 and 2:42. Are there any tools that lets me do this? Shelling…
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html5 audio player and .aif files on the web

I have been asked to use aif audio files on a website. I am using jplayer. Would there be a noticeable difference using .aif? Which browsers support .aif? Would you advise using .aif for the web? Would it mean I would need 3 versions of each track…
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Is there a way to remove IDV Tags from an AIFF file?

I'm working on a backend task system for a rails application running on an Ubuntu Server. Before converting the uploaded AIFF files to FLAC, I need to strip all the possibly existing tags from it. How can I achieve that? TagLib-Ruby doesn't have…
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Is it possible (and how) to determine the endianness of an AIFF audio file?

I work on an audio Importer in JAVA (used in a drum sequencer) and I have the following problem with importing AIFF files: I have 2 AIFF files of the same type (24bit, 44100kHz, mono), one is created on a Mac, the other is created with wavelab on a…
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Editing tag data for .aiff files with Mutagen with errors "TypeError: not a Frame instance" and "ID3NoHeaderError: doesn't start with an ID3 tag"

i'm trying to write tags to a tables .aif file using mutagen. so far not having much success... from the code in the mutagen documentation i try: from mutagen.aiff import AIFF audio = AIFF(“example.aif”) audio["title"] = u"An…
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signal processing for audio file in python

I am tying to do silence detection in uncompressed AIFF audio files. I prefer to do it in Python, but would consider other options if this is super inefficient. The uncompressed files I am dealing with are expected to be 20 MB (maximum size). I can…
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Compiling a C program for previous OS X Version

I've written a piece of C code that uses libfftw3 and libaiff external libraries. The code compiles and executes perfectly on my machine which has the required libraries and is running OS X 10.9 Mavericks. I'm using Xcode 5.1 to compile my program…
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Playing audio files with libao

I'm trying to make a simple C program play an AIFF or WAV file. Based on what I see at http://www.xiph.org/ao/doc/, this should work, but instead it makes a buzzing sound no matter what file I feed it. What's wrong with this? /* compile with "gcc…
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Library that Record from Audio Devices and Write to Disk

I am looking for a cross-platform C++ library (if not, one for Windows and one for Macintosh) that records from a selected audio devices and write to disk in one of a common formats/containers. Before I was doing recording with portaudio, but the…
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How to play an AIFF sound file using Erlang?

I am trying to look for a way to play an AIFF file using Erlang. I have found this tutorial, but it seems to be only about reading the content of the file and not actually playing it.
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iOS: aiff quiet on ipad 2 and 3

Three buttons triggering three AVAudioPlayers, identical code, identical sound files except for some pitch shifting. All three sounds loaded thus: NSString *pathDigitClick = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"tickLoVol"…
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