AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) and WAV File Formats

AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) is a file format used by Macintosh computers and Silicon Graphics Incorporated to store and transmit high-quality audio data such as music. It can store monaural, stereo or multi-channel sound as used for soundtracks. Apple Computer developed the AIFF format in 1987-88 in accordance with Electronic Arts Interchange File Format (IFF) standards. For this reason, AIFF files might have the extension .aif or .ief.

All traditional AIFF and AIFF-C files continue to work normally on Mac OS X (including on the new Intel-based hardware), and many third-party audio applications continue to use the standard AIFF big-endian byte order. Because AIFF and wave files are lossless formats, they are good for archiving music files on hard disks. You can use these pristine files to create smaller, compressed files for portable players.

The audio data in a standard AIFF file are uncompressed big-endian pulse-code modulation (PCM). There is also a compressed variant of AIFF known as AIFF-C or AIFC, with various defined compression codecs.

Audio CDs do not use WAV as their sound format, using instead Red Book audio. The commonality is that both audio CDs and WAV files have the audio data encoded in PCM. WAV is a data file format for computer use that can't be understood by CD players directly. To record WAV files to an Audio CD the file headers must be stripped and the remaining PCM data written directly to the disc as individual tracks with zero padding added to match the CD's sector size.

Audio professional, musicians and audiophiles are fond of WAV audio because of its audio fidelity. The raw WAV audio file is excellent for editing and audition. Nonetheless, WAV files would be inconvenient to transfer and share due to the large file size. Converting WAV to MP3 is a good idea to deal with the problem. With NoteBurner Audio Converter, you can now easily convert WAV to MP3 and WMA.

NoteBurner AC3 to WAV Converter

Since NoteBurner AIFF to WAV Audio Converter uses virtual burning technology, media player like iTunes, Windows Media Player or Real Player, or audio editing program like Adobe Audition, is required to co-work with the program to complete the converting. Basically, NoteBurner AIFF to WAV Audio Converter is able to convert all types of audio files that can be played by your media players, such as converting AIFF to WAV, AIFF to to MP3 and WMA.

NoteBurner AIFF to WAV Converte can preserve MP3 ID3 tag, containing Artist name, Song title, Year and Genre of the current audio file. The latest version of NoteBurner can also preserve album name and album art to the converted audio files.

NoteBurner AIFF to WAV Audio Converter is a versatile AIFF to WAV Converter. The AIFF to WAV converter is compatible with iTunes, WMP 10, Real Player, Adobe Audition (Cool Edit) and many other audio players and audio editors.

Why does NoteBurner has to work with Media player (editor) ?

NoteBurner Audio Converter utilizes virtual CD burning mechanism to convert audio files between different format. Due to this working mechanism, NoteBurner must work with media player to complete the conversion. You may need iTunes, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Napster, Adobe Audition, or any media player or audio editing program that allows you to burn your music to CDs.

The media player you may need varies depending on the lables of the digital music you purchase . If you want to convert music purchased from iTunes Music Store, you may have to use the iTunes to work with NoteBurner. DRM protected WMA files usually require Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. Audio editing programs such as Adobe Audition can also work well with NoteBurner.