[Ardour-Users] How does Ardour read AIFF files ?

[Robin Gareus]

On 10/04/2016 06:02 PM, jonetsu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There is an issue with Bitwig not reading some AIFF files.  Of course,
> Ardour reads the same files just fine.  As vlc, Mixbus and Renoise do.
> 
> I see that Ardour does not use ffmpeg/libav (eg. is not linked against
> at least).  What does it use to read AIFF files ?  It is surely not
> hardcoded...
> 

Ardour uses libsndfile which has direct support for aiff:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/

best,
robin