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[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by noeqplease

Using Pro Tools 2019 and it definitely does not open aiff files at all...


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Uh no. AIFF and WAV are the native formats supported by Pro Tools. And they both work.

If you are trying to make a specific statement about Pro Tools First, almost nobody here uses it or really cares. Pro Tools Cloud Projects (which First uses) do support both WAV and AIFF as well (I'm not going to waste time checking that works in First), and First can import and bounce out AIFF files.... done that with it.

But if you are having problems since both AIFF and WAV are container formats you should start by looking at what exactly is in any AIFF file you are having problems trying to open. Is it PCM? Uncompressed? Fixed bit, float32, float64, some weird ass codec? Is the file just corrupted... Pro Tools does not always do a great job of handling some audio file corruption, or some mangled headers, in WAV or AIFF containers.

[noeqplease]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Uh no. AIFF and WAV are the native formats supported by Pro Tools. And they both work.

If you are trying to make a specific statement about Pro Tools First, almost nobody here uses it or really cares. Pro Tools Cloud Projects (which First uses) do support both WAV and AIFF as well (I'm not going to waste time checking that works in First), and First can import and bounce out AIFF files.... done that with it.

But if you are having problems since both AIFF and WAV are container formats you should start by looking at what exactly is in any AIFF file you are having problems trying to open. Is it PCM? Uncompressed? Fixed bit, float32, float64, some weird ass codec? Is the file just corrupted... Pro Tools does not always do a great job of handling some audio file corruption, or some mangled headers, in WAV or AIFF containers.

I know it should do so. I tried opening over 6 aiff files. None did on my version. Maybe mine is broken. Next I will try to convert a few files to aiff and see if they open.

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=409022


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[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by noeqplease

I know it should do so. I tried opening over 6 aiff files. None did on my version. Maybe mine is broken. Next I will try to convert a few files to aiff and see if they open.

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=409022


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Some details would help. Again, what exact AIFF format?

Compressed AIFF import was broken, that got fixed in 2020.3. I'm not sure off the top of my head if there were other problems.

The sample files in that other thread are no longer available. And are you only talking import? There are huge numbers of Pro Tools sessions that the underlying native files are AIFF. And if that stopped working the **** would hit the fan. (ah yes thanks nanny DUC, never throw asterisk at a fan). And on 2020.3 and later on macOS Mojave I'm not seeing problems handling aiff or compressed aiff in different PCM variety. Import, drag and drop, (uncompressed) aiff as a session format, etc.