[X4U] importing audio CD as AIFF

Thu Apr 28 11:58:16 PDT 2005

On Apr 28, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Ean Kingston wrote:

> I'm trying to keep my big mouth out of this but some of you seam to be 
> talking
> about AIFF files as if they are the native format of what is on a 
> music CD.
> they aren't. The raw audio on a CD is 16bit 4.1khz headerless PCM file.

According to the format description from the Library of Congress, PCM 
bitstream encoding is used on audio CDs and is also the default 
bitstream encoding for AIFF.

<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000016.shtml>

-- Edward