Audio Interchange File Format
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Interchange_File_Format
The
documentation from 3DO
suggested looking at
Inside Macintosh VI
for details on AIFF and AIFF-C.
Audio Interchange File Format - “AIFF”: A Standard for Sampled Sound Files (Version 1.3):
aiff_-_1989-01-04_v1.3.pdf
AIFF-C
An extension of AIFF to support compression.
Audio Interchange File Format AIFF-C (1991-08-26 draft):
aiff-c_-_1991-08-26_draft.pdf