AIFF to AAC Converter
Select files for conversion or just drag and drop them to the upload area
How to convert AIFF files to AAC online?
Step 1.
Upload AIFF-file
Click "Choose File" button to select a aiff file on your computer. AIFF file size can be up to 50 Mb.
Step 2.
Convert AIFF to AAC
Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
Step 3.
Download your AAC
When the conversion process is complete, you can download the AAC file.
Information about AIFF and AAC file formats
| Name | AIFF | AAC |
| Full name | AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format | AAC - Advanced Audio Coding |
| File extension | .aiff, .aif, .aifc | .aac |
| MIME type | audio/x-aiff, audio/aiff | audio/aac |
| Developed by | Apple Inc. | Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute etc. |
| Type of format | audio file format, container format | Audio compression format |
| Description | Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The format was developed by Apple Inc. in 1988 based on Electronic Arts' Interchange File Format (IFF, widely used on Amiga systems) and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems. | Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates. AAC has been standardized by ISO and IEC, as part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 specifications. |
| Technical details | The audio data in most AIFF files is uncompressed pulse-code modulation (PCM). This type of AIFF files uses much more disk space than lossy formats like MP3—about 10 MB for one minute of stereo audio at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz and a bit depth of 16 bits. There is also a compressed variant of AIFF known as AIFF-C or AIFC, with various defined compression codecs. | AAC supports inclusion of 48 full-bandwidth audio channels in one stream plus 16 low frequency effects channels, up to 16 "coupling" or dialog channels, and up to 16 data streams. The quality for stereo is satisfactory to modest requirements at 96 kbit/s in joint stereo mode; however, hi-fi transparency demands data rates of at least 128 kbit/s. |
| File conversion | AIFF conversion | AAC conversion |
| Associated programs | iTunes | foobar2000, AIMP, DirectShow, QuickTime, VLC media player. |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Interchange_File_Format | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding |