Hi All.

Could someone please tell me what exactly happens during the process described in the title here - decoding AIFF files to WAV files using RazorLame/LAME v.3.96.1.

The resulting output files seem to only be 2kb smaller than the originals; so am i right in assuming that it is simply a straight conversion with no alteration to the sound/quality at all, but only maybe 2kb of header info lost or something?

Many thanks in advance!

Ed.

WAV and AIFF are both simply container formats (typically for uncompressed PCM), so converting between the 2 is simply a matter of re-wrapping the contained audio data. Thus there's no loss in quality, the size difference is in the way the audio data is stored.

Thank you!

I had no idea RazorLame could convert AIFF to WAVE. I have converted AIFF to WAVE a few times using SOX from the command line.