Core Audio Format

File Format
Name	Core Audio Format
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music Core Audio Format
Extension(s)	.caf
MIME Type(s)	audio/x-caf
LoCFDD	fdd000591
PRONOM	fmt/416
Wikidata ID	Q2997216
Released	2005

Description

Core Audio Format (CAF) is an audio container format developed by Apple. Like Sony's Wave64 and the European Broadcasting Union's RF64, CAF is a 64-bit format designed to overcome the storage limitations of earlier formats such as WAV and AIFF.

Information

• Apple Core Audio Format Specification 1.0 PDF

Software

• Cafio. Converts AIFF, WAV, MP3 and M4A to CAF
• FFmpeg
• Logic Pro
• SoX

Sample files

• Some example .caf files
• dexvert samples — audio/coreAudio