aifc.aifc.setcomptype()

aifc.setcomptype(type, name)

Specify the compression type. If not specified, the audio data will not be compressed. In AIFF files, compression is not possible. The name parameter should be a human-readable description of the compression type as a bytes array, the type parameter should be a bytes array of length 4. Currently the following compression types are supported: b'NONE', b'ULAW', b'ALAW', b'G722'.