The formats of the different local chunk types found within a FORM AIFF are described in the following sections, as are their ckIDs. There are two types of chunks: required and optional. The Common Chunk is required. The Sound Data chunk is required if the sampled sound has a length greater than zero. All other chunks are optional. All applications that use FORM AIFF must be able to read the required chunks and can choose to selectively ignore the optional chunks. A program that copies a FORM AIFF should copy all the chunks in the FORM AIFF, even those it chooses not to interpret. the common chunk sound data chunk