[rogerhoward]

"The first lossless audio format to gain widespread adoption (FLAC) was released 6 years after MP3."

AIFF and WAV say what?

[jefftk]

From context they mean lossless compression audio format, and standard AIFF and WAV are uncompressed PCM.

On the other hand, AIFF does have a compressed variant ("AIFF-C") spec'd in 1991 [1], which I suspect the author wasn't aware of.

[1] https://www.mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/AIFF/A...

[bad_username]

WAV is just a container format that can hold any audio stream, uncompressed (PCM) or compressed.