AIFF / AIFF-C Sample Files

The following are AIFF/AIFC files of various types

• The files marked with an asterisk (^*) will not play with QuickTime.
• The files marked  with a plus sign (⁺) play incorrectly with QuickTime.

Sample Files from CopyAudio

The CopyAudio program (part of the AFsp package) can produce output files of a number of different types. Samples files produced by converting stereo 16-bit data are as follows.

M1F1-AlawC-AFsp.aif (47 kB)

AIFF-C file, stereo A-law data (compression type: "alaw").

M1F1-mulawC-AFsp.aif (47 kB)

AIFF-C file, stereo µ-law data (compression type: "ulaw").

M1F1-int8-AFsp.aif (47 kB)
AIFF file, stereo 8-bit data.
M1F1-int8C-AFsp.aif (47 kB)
AIFF-C file, stereo 8-bit  data.
M1F1-int12-AFsp.aif (92 kB)
AIFF file, stereo 12/16-bit data.
M1F1-int12C-AFsp.aif (92 kB)
AIFF-C file, stereo 12/16-bit  data.
M1F1-int16-AFsp.aif (92 kB)
AIFF file, stereo 16-bit data.
M1F1-int16C-AFsp.aif (92 kB)
AIFF-C file, stereo 16-bit  data.
M1F1-int24-AFsp.aif (138 kB)
AIFF file, stereo 24-bit data.
M1F1-int24C-AFsp.aif (138 kB)⁺
AIFF-C file, stereo 24-bit  data.
M1F1-int32-AFsp.aif (184 kB)
AIFF file, stereo 32-bit data.
M1F1-int32C-AFsp.aif (184 kB)
AIFF-C file, stereo 32-bit  data.
M1F1-float32C-AFsp.aif (184 kB)⁺
AIFF file, stereo 32-bit float data.
M1F1-float64C-AFsp.aif (368 kB)
AIFF-C file, stereo 64-bit  float data.

Perverse Files

The following AIFF-C files are legitimate but perverse.

Pmiscck.aif (1 kB)^*

AIFF-C file (9 samples) with an odd length intermediate chunk (compression code "XxXx").

Pnossnd.aif (1 kB)^*

AIFF-C file with 0 samples (no SSND chunk).

Poffset.aif (1 kB)^*

AIFF-C file (9 samples), SSND chunk has a 5 byte offset to the data and trailing junk in the SSND chunk.

Porder.aif (1 kB)^*

AIFF-C file (9 samples) with SSND chunk ahead of the COMM chunk

Ptjunk.aif (1 kB)^*

AIFF-C file (9 samples) with trailing junk after the FORM chunk

The following AIFF-C file is invalid. A reasonable file reading routine should be able to work around the problems.

Fnonull.aif (1 kB)^*

AIFF-C file (9 samples) with COMM chunk declaring 92 bytes (1 byte longer than actual file length), SSND with 9 bytes, missing trailing fill byte.

Other AIFF files

These files are from CCRMA at Stanford: ftp://ftp-ccrma.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/sf.tar.gz.

aiff-16.snd (129 kB)^*

AIFF file: 16-bit data.

aiff-8.snd (65 kB)^*

AIFF file: 8-bit signed data.

alaw.aifc (2 kB)^*

AIFF-C file: A-law (compression code: "ALAW", data from wood12.aiff saved as A-law samples).

ulaw.aifc (2 kB)^*

AIFF-C file: µ-law data (compression code "ULAW", data from wood12.aiff saved as µ-law samples).

digit0v0.aiff (9 kB)^*

AIFF-C file with weird COMM chunk.

g722.aifc (2 kB)^*

AIFF-C file: G.722 data (compression code: "G722").

o2_726.aiff (1 kB)^*

AIFF-C file: G.726 data (compression code: "G726").

o2_728.aiff (1 kB)^*

AIFF-C file: G.728 data (compression code: "G728").

o2_gsm.aiff (1 kB)^*

AIFF-C file: GSM data (compression code: "GSM ").

wood12.aiff (4 kB)

AIFF file: 12-bit data.

wood24.aiff (5 kB)

AIFF file: 24-bit data (same data as wood12.aiff).