[X4U] importing audio CD as AIFF

[Ean Kingston]

On April 28, 2005 02:58 pm, Edward Hillenbrand wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but AIFF has a header.

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

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