Missing Sound in Video Game... QuickTime Can't open "AIFC" Files

Question

Recently bought "Alida," whose sound files are in AIFC format. Understand this is a common Mac sound file format, but for some reason no sounds show up in the game, and if I open QuickTime player and double-click any of the ".aifc" sound files stored in the game folder, QT returns the error message "The movie could not be opened." Clicking "OK" sends me another message stating that QuickTime needs another component to play the movie. Clicking "OK" there sends me to this page:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html?os=OSX&ctype=73646563&c subtype=696d6134
Unfortunately, on that page are 11 different codecs, none of which address ".aifc" files. I've looked up the AIFC file format information on Google, and there is a lot, but no pointers to the correct codec for a Mac. Can anyone suggest what I need? My version of QuickTime is 7.6.4 (Pro).

Answer 1

Could the "invalid track" be something the game uses to call the file?
There are lots of tricks like that that Games use as a sort of protection, even skewing files so as to make only their application know how to read them... not sure on this of course.
Why would I convert a sound file to the same format?
One thing about "Standards"... there are as many interpretations of them as there are companies. There are likely more than one kind of .aifc files. I'm thinking the Game itself is only going be looking for "certain_file.aifc" so it would have to be at least named that, though converting it to .aiff or even .mp3 might work if the extension was renamed to .aifc.
To just play them outside the Game converting it to anything should work.
There's also a know bugabo with certain .aifc files...
With the development of the Mac OS X operating system, Apple created a new type of AIFF which is, in effect, an alternative little-endian byte order format.
Because the AIFF architecture has no provision for alternative byte order, Apple used the existing AIFF-C compression architecture, and created a "pseudo-compressed" codec called sowt (twos spelled backwards). The only difference between a standard AIFF file and an AIFF-C/sowt file is the byte order; there is no compression involved at all.[3]
Apple uses this new little-endian AIFF type as its standard on Mac OS X. >When a file is imported to or exported from iTunes in "AIFF" format, it is actually AIFF-C/sowt that is being used. When audio from an audio CD disc is imported by dragging to the Mac OS X Desktop, the resulting file is also an AIFF-C/sowt. In all cases, Apple refers to the files simply as "AIFF", and uses the ".aiff" extension.
For the vast majority of users this technical situation is completely unnoticeable and irrelevant. The sound quality of standard AIFF and AIFF-C/sowt are identical, and the data can be converted back and forth without loss. Users of older audio applications, however, may find that an AIFF-C/sowt file will not play, or will prompt the user to convert the format on opening, or will play as static.
All traditional AIFF and AIFF-C files continue to work normally on Mac OS X (including on the new Intel-based hardware), and many third-party audio applications as well as hardware continue to use the standard AIFF big-endian byte order.
Note: As of Mac OS X version 10.4.9, the system will sometimes incorrectly display the AIFC icon for files with the .aif extension, whether or not the actual file format is AIFF or AIFF-C. This can be verified by opening the files in a hex editor and checking the FORM chunk's form type. This can sometimes happen when exporting files from QuickTime, and frequently happens when sending and receiving files between Windows and Mac computers or extracting files from an archive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AudioInterchange_FileFormat
EDIT: Get HexEdit and open that file for a look...
http://hexedit.sourceforge.net/
Message was edited by: BDAqua