[music-dsp] Apple's Core Audio Format?

[Sampo Syreeni]

On 2005-04-18, Erik de Castro Lopo uttered:

> [...] The reason for the above request is that I would like to add 
> support for this format to libsndfile.

Not a Mac user, and the documentation is really scarce, but the features 
and support they rave about seem to suggest that Core Audio files are 
simply a new QuickTime derivative. I mean, QTFF's 64-bit, it has AAC and 
the like, it can seamlessly reference both raw and compressed data in 
external files, and the software support exists in QT as advertised. 
Apple also seems to be leveraging QTFF quite heavily now that ISO and 
MPEG have adopted most of it in their Base Media File Format. So I'm 
guessing CAFF is audio tracks only QTFF with a couple of new boxes for 
configuration information. If so, adding support for it will be a bit 
tricky from the format viewpoint (QT is deeply nested/structured while 
most of the necessary encodings are already supported by libsndfile), 
but then the code could be used for BMFF/MPEG-7 support as well.

Then again, this is just a guess...
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