AIFF

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AIFF

File Format
Name	AIFF
Ontology	Electronic File Formats AIFF
Extension(s)	.aiff
MIME Type(s)	audio/x-aiff, audio/aiff

Overview

AIFF files store uncompressed signed audio samples inside an IFF container. See that article for more details. There's also a compressed variant, called AIFC, which has its own page.

Resources

• Page from fileformat.info[1]
• Wikipedia also has some info
• some more detailed information[2]
• McGill University also has lots of info on the format here
• Another source of information[3]