AIFF

File Format
Name	AIFF
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music 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.

AIFF chunks provide native metadata. In addition, although it is not in the specification, an ID3 chunk is often used to include ID3V2 metadata.

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]