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AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format

 

Format introduction:

Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The format was developed by Apple Inc. in 1988 based on Electronic Arts' Interchange File Format (IFF, widely used on Amiga systems) and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems.

Technical details:

The audio data in most AIFF files is uncompressed pulse-code modulation (PCM). This type of AIFF files uses much more disk space than lossy formats like MP3-about 10 MB for one minute of stereo audio at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz and a bit depth of 16 bits. There is also a compressed variant of AIFF known as AIFF-C or AIFC, with various defined compression codecs.

 

File extension	.aiff, .aif, .aifc
MIME	audio/x-aiff, audio/aiff
Developed by	Apple Inc.
Type of format	Audio file format, container format
Associated programs	iTunes
Sample file	sample.aiff
Wikipedia	AIFF on Wikipedia