I'm going to start keeping a list of the sources I've used to create Lofty to hopefully categorize and credit them appropriately in the future.

AAC/ADTS

• ADTS. MultimediaWiki. (2022, April 25). https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/ADTS
  • Structure of the ADTS header

AIFF/AIFC

• Apple Computer, Inc. (1988, January 21). Audio Interchange File Format: “AIFF.” - https://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/AIFF/Docs/AIFF-1.3.pdf
  • Structure of the AIFF file format
  • Discovery of the text chunks
• Apple Computer, Inc. (1991, August 26). Audio Interchange File Format AIFF-C. - https://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/AIFF/Docs/AIFF-C.9.26.91.pdf
  • Structure of the AIFC file format
• Kabal, P. (2017, September 20). Audio File Format Specifications. AIFF / AIFC Sound File Specifications. https://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/AIFF/AIFF.html
  • Summary of AIFF/AIFC
  • List of AIFC compression types

ALAC

• Apple. (2011, October 26). Macosforge/ALAC: The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is a lossless audio codec developed by Apple and deployed on all of its platforms and devices. GitHub. https://github.com/macosforge/alac
• Wikimedia Foundation. (2024, April 23). Apple Lossless Audio Codec. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless_Audio_Codec

APE

• APEV2 specification. APEv2 specification - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase. (2008, February 24). https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=APEv2_specification
• Monkey’s Audio SDK. Monkey’s audio - a fast and powerful lossless audio compressor. (n.d.). https://www.monkeysaudio.com/developers.html

FLAC

• Beurden, M. van, & Weaver, A. (2024, March 1). Free lossless audio codec. IETF Datatracker. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cellar-flac/
• Xiph. (n.d.). FLAC - format. https://xiph.org/flac/format.html

MP4

• Apple. (n.d.). QuickTime file format. Apple Developer Documentation. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quicktime-file-format
• Complete list of all known MP4/qt “ftyp” designations. Complete List of all known MP4/QT “ftyp” designations. (2009, August 22). https://ftyps.com/
• MPEG-4 audio. MPEG-4 Audio - MultimediaWiki. (2021, August 13). https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=MPEG-4_Audio
• MPEG-4 file structure. MPEG-4 files. (n.d.). https://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/mpeg-4files.html
• QuickTime container. QuickTime container - MultimediaWiki. (2012, August 31). https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/QuickTime_container

Musepack

• Stream version 7 format specification. SV7Specification – Musepack Trac. (2007, May 25). http://trac.musepack.net/musepack/wiki/SV7Specification
• SV8 specification. SV8Specification – Musepack Trac. (2009, February 24). http://trac.musepack.net/musepack/wiki/SV8Specification