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The '''Resource Interchange File Format''' ('''RIFF''') is a generic file [[container format (digital)|container format]] for storing data in tagged [[Chunk (information)|chunks]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0 |url=http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/WAVE/Docs/riffmci.pdf |format=PDF |pages=10–11 |publisher=IBM / Microsoft |date=August 1991 |access-date=2017-07-07}}</ref> It is primarily used to store [[multimedia]] such as sound and video, though it may also be used to store any arbitrary data.<ref name="LoC">{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000025.shtml|title=RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format)|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|work=Digital Preservation|date=2014-01-08|accessdate=2014-03-11}}</ref>

The Microsoft implementation is mostly known through container formats like [[Audio Video Interleave|AVI]], [[ANI (animation file format)|ANI]] and [[WAV]], which use RIFF as their basis.<ref name="micriff">{{cite web |title=Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats, Second Edition |date=1996 |authors=James D. Murray, William vanRyper |isbn=1-56592-161-5 |publisher=[[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly]] |at=[https://archive.org/details/mac_Graphics_File_Formats_Second_Edition_1996/page/ Microsoft RIFF] |url=https://wwwarchive.fileformat.infoorg/formatdetails/riffmac_Graphics_File_Formats_Second_Edition_1996/page/egff.htm |accessdate=2016-04-07 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051128020903/http://www.oreilly.com/www/centers/gff/formats/micriff/index.htm |archivedate=November 28, 2005 }}</ref>

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