Audio Interchange File Format

From MultimediaWiki

• Extensions: aif, aiff
• Company: Apple
• Official Specification: http://multimedia.cx/mirror/AudioIFF1_2_1.htm
• MIME Types:
  • aif, aiff: audio/aiff, audio/x-aiff, or audio/x-pn-aiff
• Samples: http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/AIFF/Samples.html

AIFF files exclusively store audio data. They serve as somewhat of an Apple analog of the Microsoft Wave format.

Comprehensive AIFF tag listing: http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/aiff-hul.html