Friday, November 14, 2008

AIFF and iTunes

The Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) provides relatively high-quality sound, but its file sizes are larger than MP3 or AAC. As you can probably guess from its name, this format was originally used to exchange audio among various platforms. As with the WAV format, because the MP3 and AAC formats provide better sound quality in smaller file sizes, you aren’t likely to use the AIFF format very often. The most likely situation in which you might want to use it is when you want to move some music or sound from your iTunes collection into a different application that does not support the MP3 or AAC format.

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