{
 "id": "notation-interchange-file-format",
 "name": "Notation Interchange File Format",
 "category": "audio",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "nif"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "application/vnd.music-niff"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/974"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q2001898"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "52494658",
    "notes": "NIFF"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "NIFF",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "52494658{4}4e494646"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "Notation Interchange File Format (NIFF) is a music notation file format used primarily for transferring music notation between different scorewriters.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "NIFFtoText",
   "url": "http://www.visiv.co.uk/niff.htm",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "PhotoScore Lite",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122068167",
   "reads": false,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "SmartScore",
   "url": "http://www.musitek.com/",
   "reads": false,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "TablEdit Tablature Editor",
   "url": "http://www.tabledit.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Notation_Interchange_File_Format",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/974",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/974",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q2001898",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2001898",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}