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Re:QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format by jefftk on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:46AM (#34628162)
From context they mean lossless compression audio format, and standard AIFF and WAV are uncompressed PCM.

On the other hand, AIFF does have a compressed variant ("AIFF-C") spec'd in 1991 [1], which I suspect the author wasn't aware of.

[1] https://www.mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/AIFF/A...

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Re:QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format by hcs on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:27PM (#34629949)
AIFC "compression" is like WAV's codecs / compression type, since AIFF only does linear PCM. I think they're from around the same time.
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