Audio
CAF files
Apple’s flexible audio container. It can hold almost any kind of audio, has no practical size limit and is used by Apple’s developer and audio tools.
- Full name
- Core Audio Format
- Made by
- Apple
- Introduced
- 2005
- File extension
- .caf
- Compression
- Any codec; often uncompressed
- Best for
- Audio for Apple developer tools and very long recordings
- Opens in
- macOS and Apple’s audio and developer tools; rarely elsewhere
- In FileFlip
- Opens
Good at
- No practical size limit
- Holds almost any audio codec
Not so good at
- Few apps outside the Mac open it
CAF in FileFlip
FileFlip opens CAF files and converts them to other formats. It doesn’t save CAF.
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