What is a .AIFF file?
AIFF is Apple’s uncompressed, lossless audio format, similar to WAV.
- Did you know
- Apple created AIFF in 1988, based on Electronic Arts’ earlier IFF format.
- AIFF is built on Electronic Arts’ Interchange File Format, the same chunk-based container scheme that originated on the Commodore Amiga.
- It stores samples in big-endian byte order, a legacy of the Motorola 68000 processors in the early Macintoshes that created it.
- AIFF audio is usually plain uncompressed PCM, which gives perfect fidelity at the cost of large file sizes similar to WAV.
- A variant called AIFF-C adds optional compression, while the base AIFF deliberately keeps the audio untouched.
- What Analyser shows you
- Inspect the waveform, spectrogram, codec, bitrate, channels, and tags of MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG, and Opus audio.
- Open a .AIFF file
- Drag a .AIFF file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.