i will be adding information to this page as i have time, and as i find new things out. if you have new information on new chunk types, new compression types or have some source code that you would like to share, please drop me a line.

tom erbe
tre@shoko.calarts.edu

- the official specification from Apple Computer. this is essential!! download, print-out, read and re-read. (this has been on the SGI site for a while now)
    ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/aiff-c.9.26.91.ps.Z This is also available as a PDF file.

- chunk types and descriptions

- compressionTypes and compressionNames

- source code for reading and writing AIFF-C chunks
    (CreateAIFCHeader, ReadAIFCHeader, WriteAIFCHeader)

- source code for reading and writing various compression types

- multichannel sample order
    this is from the documentation, but it is often overlooked

stereo	left	right
3 channel	left	center	right
quad	front left	front right	rear left	rear right
4 channel	left	center	right	surround
6 channel	left	left center	center	right	right center	surround