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Why is this approach better than adding an extension with the same compression scheme to AIFF?
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Why is this approach better than adding an extension with the same compression scheme to AIFF?
- hcs 3y agoI guess because the implementations aren't intending to support a lot of different input codecs, so there's no benefits to the flexibility of AIFF/AIFC. Also avoids having to deal with an 80-bit extended precision float just for the sample rate.
- JD557 3y agoHijacking this comment in case you (or someone from HN) knows. Is there any particular reason that AIFF uses an 80-bit extended float precision for the sample rate, instead of a 32-bit integer like WAVE? I assume this was an oversight at the time, but I'm curious if there are actual applications where sub-Hz (or 2^32Hz) precision is needed.